Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up OS drive?

2009-07-01 Thread Tertius Lydgate
Hi cindys, That recovery procedure seems overly complex. I've instead purchased a disk to mirror my root pool onto. Unfortunately, it seems that the disk is slightly smaller than my current rpool. However I would be happy to have a mirror the same size as the smaller disk. Is there a way

[zfs-discuss] Backing up OS drive?

2009-06-26 Thread Tertius Lydgate
I have one drive that I'm running OpenSolaris on and a 6-drive RAIDZ. Unfortunately I don't have another drive to mirror the OS drive, so I was wondering what the best way to back up that drive is. Can I mirror it onto a file on the RAIDZ, or will this cause problems before the array is loaded

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up OS drive?

2009-06-26 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Tertius, I think you are saying that you have an OpenSolaris system with a one-disk root pool and a 6-way RAIDZ non-root pool. You could create root pool snapshots and send them over to the non-root pool or to a pool on another system. Then, consider purchasing another disk for a mirrored