[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-09-11 Thread Bui Minh Truong
I'm working on replication of ZFS. Using perl script and SSH access with authorized key. My script automatically creates a new snapshot for each ZFS filesystem. It's too slow to send snapshots to remote server. Not because of size of snapshot. Cause SSH with authorized key takes several seconds

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-09-11 Thread Tim Foster
hi there, On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 23:49 -0700, Bui Minh Truong wrote: I'm working on replication of ZFS. Using perl script and SSH access with authorized key. Cool - I did exactly same thing last week, adding send/receive functionality to the SMF service I had been playing with. More at

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-31 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
Are both of you doing a umount/mount (or export/import, I guess) of the source filesystem before both first and second test? Otherwise, there might still be a fair bit of cached data left over from the first test, which would give the 2nd an unfair advantage. I'm fairly sure unmounting a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-31 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Roch wrote: Matthew Ahrens writes: Robert Milkowski wrote: IIRC unmounting ZFS file system won't flush its caches - you've got to export entire pool. That's correct. And I did ensure that the data was not cached before each of my tests. Matt ? It seems to me that (at least