Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-11 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Bruce Shaw wrote: Mark J Musante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but 'zfs clone' is exactly the way to mount a snapshot. Creating a clone uses up a negligible amount of disk space, provided you never write to it. And you can always set readonly=on if

[zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Bruce Shaw
I have a scenario where I have several ORACLE databases. I'm trying to keep system downtime to a minimum for business reasons. I've created zpools on three devices, an internal 148 Gb drive (data) and two partitions on an HP SAN. HP won't do JBOD so I'm stuck with relying upon HP to give me a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Mark J Musante
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Bruce Shaw wrote: I don't have enough disk to do clones and I haven't figured out how to mount snapshots directly. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but 'zfs clone' is exactly the way to mount a snapshot. Creating a clone uses up a negligible amount of disk

RE: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Bruce Shaw
Mark J Musante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but 'zfs clone' is exactly the way to mount a snapshot. Creating a clone uses up a negligible amount of disk space, provided you never write to it. And you can always set readonly=on if that's a concern. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/10/2007 02:19:17 PM: I have a scenario where I have several ORACLE databases. I'm trying to keep system downtime to a minimum for business reasons. I've created zpools on three devices, an internal 148 Gb drive (data) and two partitions on an HP SAN. HP