Hi all, I think several other users have posed this question, but haven't had a definitive answer.
I would like to have an automatic backup for my laptop. I understand that zpool attach will create a n-way mirror depending on the number of drives you have in your configuration. As soon as you perform that operation, it begins to update the new drive in the mirror (making it automatic). My question is, reading the article here: http://docs.huihoo.com/opensolaris/solaris-zfs-administration-guide/html/ch04s04.html I do not want to keep my external harddrive plugged in all the time and so can I offline the 2nd drive in the mirror to return it back to a single drive configuration and then re-attach it whenever I want to update the clone? I'm thinking along these lines: [code] 1. zpool attach zeepool c1t1d0 c2t1d0 2. assume all of the data is mirrored on the 2nd drive (probably not true since this will mirror the root filesystem) 3. zpool detach newpool c2t1d0 4. reconnect drive 5. zpool attach zeepool c1t1d0 c2t1d0 [/code] Is that possible? Walter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
