On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] >> >> Pedantically, a pool can be made in a file, so it works the same... > > Pool can only be made in a file, by a system that is able to create a pool. You can't send a pool, you can only send a dataset. Whether you receive the dataset into a pool or file is a minor nit, the send stream itself is consistent. > Point is, his receiving system runs linux and doesn't have any zfs; his > receiving system is remote from his sending system, and it has been suggested > that he might consider making an iscsi target available, so the sending > system could "zpool create" and "zfs receive" directly into a file or device > on the receiving system, but it doesn't seem as if that's going to be > possible for him - he's expecting to transport the data over ssh. So he's > looking for a way to do a "zfs receive" on a linux system, transported over > ssh. Suggested answers so far include building a VM on the receiving side, > to run openindiana (or whatever) or using zfs-fuse-linux. > > He is currently writing his "zfs send" datastream into a series of files on > the receiving system, but this has a few disadvantages as compared to doing > "zfs receive" on the receiving side. Namely, increased risk of data loss and > less granularity for restores. For these reasons, it's been suggested to > find a way of receiving via "zfs receive" and he's exploring the > possibilities of how to improve upon this situation. Namely, how to "zfs > receive" on a remote linux system via ssh, instead of cat'ing or redirecting > into a series of files. > > There, I think I've recapped the whole thread now. ;-) Yep, and cat works fine. -- richard -- richard.ell...@richardelling.com +1-760-896-4422
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