Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
Chris Cosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they are truly limited, something like an rsync or similar. There was a script being thrown around a while back that was touted as the Best Backup Script That Doesn't Do Backups, but I can't find it. In essence, it just created a list of what changed

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-30 Thread Joerg Schilling
eric kustarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best Backup Script That Doesn't Do Backups, but I can't find it. In essence, it just created a list of what changed since the last backup and allowed you to use tar/cpio/cp - whatever to do the backup. I think zfs send/recv would be a great way to

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-30 Thread Justin Vassallo
It depends: if you like to be able to restore single files, zfs send/recv would not be apropriate. Why not? With zfs you can easily view any file/dir from a snapshot (via the .zfs dir). You can also copy that instance of the file into your running fs with cp. justin smime.p7s Description:

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-30 Thread Ross
Just checking, are you planning to have the receiving ZFS system read only? I'm not sure how ZFS receive works on a system if changes have been made, but I would expect they would be overwritten. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-29 Thread Stefano Pini
Hi guys, we are proposing a customer a couple of X4500 (24 Tb) used as NAS (i.e. NFS server). Both server will contain the same files and should be accessed by different clients at the same time (i.e. they should be both active) So we need to guarantee that both x4500 contain the same

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Cosby
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Stefano Pini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, we are proposing a customer a couple of X4500 (24 Tb) used as NAS (i.e. NFS server). Both server will contain the same files and should be accessed by different clients at the same time (i.e. they should be

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-29 Thread Richard Elling
Stefano Pini wrote: Hi guys, we are proposing a customer a couple of X4500 (24 Tb) used as NAS (i.e. NFS server). Both server will contain the same files and should be accessed by different clients at the same time (i.e. they should be both active) What exactly are they trying to do?

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-29 Thread eric kustarz
On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:24 PM, Chris Cosby wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Stefano Pini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, we are proposing a customer a couple of X4500 (24 Tb) used as NAS (i.e. NFS server). Both server will contain the same files and should be accessed by

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-07-29 Thread Chris Cosby
Obviously, I should stop answering, as all I deal with and all that I will deal with is GA Solaris. OpenSolaris might as well not exist as far as I'm concerned. With that in mind, I'll just keep reading and appreciating all of the good zfs info that comes along. Peace out. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008

Re: [zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-06-17 Thread Richard Elling
Stefano Pini wrote: Hi guys, we are proposing a customer a couple of X4500 (24 Tb) used as NAS (i.e. NFS server). Both server will contain the same files and should be accessed by different clients at the same time (i.e. they should be both active) So we need to guarantee that both

[zfs-discuss] questions about ZFS Send/Receive

2008-06-16 Thread Stefano Pini
Hi guys, we are proposing a customer a couple of X4500 (24 Tb) used as NAS (i.e. NFS server). Both server will contain the same files and should be accessed by different clients at the same time (i.e. they should be both active) So we need to guarantee that both x4500 contain the same