Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-11 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Bruce Shaw wrote: Mark J Musante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but 'zfs clone' is exactly the way to mount a snapshot. Creating a clone uses up a negligible amount of disk space, provided you never write to it. And you can always set readonly=on if

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Mark J Musante
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Bruce Shaw wrote: I don't have enough disk to do clones and I haven't figured out how to mount snapshots directly. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but 'zfs clone' is exactly the way to mount a snapshot. Creating a clone uses up a negligible amount of disk

RE: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Bruce Shaw
Mark J Musante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, but 'zfs clone' is exactly the way to mount a snapshot. Creating a clone uses up a negligible amount of disk space, provided you never write to it. And you can always set readonly=on if that's a concern. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is this a workable ORACLE disaster recovery solution?

2007-05-10 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/10/2007 02:19:17 PM: I have a scenario where I have several ORACLE databases. I'm trying to keep system downtime to a minimum for business reasons. I've created zpools on three devices, an internal 148 Gb drive (data) and two partitions on an HP SAN. HP