On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Sriram Narayanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Jorgen Lundman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
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>>> How does it die? Does the system panic? If so, you should be able to
>>> extract a crash dump using the procedure below and post the output here:
>>> http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/How+To+Report+Problems
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>> Nah, nothing so major. The "zfs" process seems to just die, to the point
>> that "nc" does not even notice it is gone. This exact situation is even on
>> Solaris 10, so not specific to this mailing-list. (So I wasn't after support
>> directly)
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>> But with 48+ hours transfers, there will always be reasons you might lose a
>> connection, or network, or server reboot, or tripping over a cable. So it
>> was more a question about the feature, which is definitely needed. Once I
>> have the base fs over, I can do incremental transfers, sure.
>
> I wonder if you could use rsync in some way, perhaps by piping the
> transfer in case the source server doesn't have enough space for a
> local zfs dump.

I just wanted to clarify - I understand how rsync works and what it's
for. I'm only wondering myself how to resume a transfer of a known
file (e.g. a zfs snapshot) in case dumping the said snapshot as a
regular local file is not an option.

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