Can some explain some ideas and concepts to me, or point me in the right direction of documentation?
WIKI ==== XINIT, can you set up a Wiki? I'm discovering all sorts of things as I play, configure, delete, get stuck, figure things out and I would very happily share these in a wiki, but there aint one so I can't and thats a real shame. SNAPSHOTS ========= I'm thinking these are like backups. Is that correct? How come I get to speficy the size of the backup? I've currently setup a snapshot to run once a week and rotate every 8, but I've made it the same size as the volume is a snapshot of, will this actualy work? How should I calculate the size of a snapshot? How come Openfiler doesnt calculate this and suggest a size? Can I have the snapshots be stored on a 2nd Openfiler box? How come in my "list of existing volumes" the snapshots appear to take up no space? Enhancement Request: It would be great (I think, without fully understanding the snapshot idea) to be able to schedule, annual, monthly, weekly, daily snapshots (as in father, grand father etc backups). Other systems Disks =================== I have read, here on this list, that Openfiler can present "disks" it can see from other systems, if this is true, how? RAID Volumes ============ How do I setup a hot swap? Can I add software RAID volumes to an existing array such that the array grows in size? Is it possible to upgrade a RAID5 to RAID6, without first deleting anything? Enhancement Request: When setting the underlying partition size, please allow this to be done by size, so that it's easy to create partitions/volumes that can join an existing array when the physical disks have a different number of cylinders. XML Config Files ================ In a previous reply to me it is indicated there are XML configuration files, are these documented anywhere? Config Backup ============= How do I backup (and restore) all the config information? Since I have software RAID through Openfiler I need to know how to restore the SAN/NAS after it's boot disk has suffered a failure. Cheers Jason _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
