RE: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-23 Thread Malcolm Waltz
If you end up in the double-mounted situation mentioned below, use mount -v to find the fsid for each double-mounted filesystem and then umount them using the fsid. To avoid this, always use the -R option (temporary, alternate root mount point) with zpool if you are working with a root pool.

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Malcolm Waltz
I doubt the issues you are encountering have much to do with ZFS. It sounds like you are using TimeMachine over NFS. Obviously, Apple does not support that configuration: http://www.google.com/search?q=time+machine+nfs+site:apple.com In my opinion, TimeMachine should only be used with block

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Malcolm Waltz
AFP is not the same as HFS+. Time Machine will work better with AFP than NFS or SMB/CIFS, but it's still not using native HFS+ unless you are using block storage (even if you use AFP with an HFS+ filesystem). Time Machine cannot function at all without accessing HFS+ directly. If you are

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Malcolm Waltz
increase and decrease the size and doesn't mention anything special about Time Machine. On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 29/04/2011, at 2:16, Malcolm Waltz wrote: I doubt the issues you are encountering have much to do with ZFS. It sounds like you are using TimeMachine over

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Malcolm Waltz
On Apr 28, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Be aware there are all sorts of caveats/complexities with iSCSI on FreeBSD. There are past threads on -stable and -fs talking about them in great detail. I personally wouldn't go this route. Why can't OS X use CIFS? It has the ability to

RE: FTPS Server?

2012-01-05 Thread Malcolm Waltz
userlist_enable=YES userlist_deny=NO userlist_file=/usr/local/etc/vsftpd.user_list check_shell=NO Good luck, Malcolm Waltz Unix Systems Administrator III Office of Information Technology University of the Pacific -Original Message- From

Re: FTPS Server?

2012-01-06 Thread Malcolm Waltz
On Jan 6, 2012, at 6:48 AM, David Magda wrote: On Thu, January 5, 2012 14:28, Malcolm Waltz wrote: I've included a working vsftpd.conf below for FTPES. For what you are doing, you may not need all of these parameters. The pasv_ parameters are mostly only necessary if you need to serve