Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
It seems like the zpool export will ques the drives and mark the pool as exported. This would be good if we wanted to move the pool at that time but we are thinking of a disaster recovery scenario. It would be nice to export just the config to where if our controller dies, we can use the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Sorry if this has been dicussed before. I tried searching but I couldn't find any info about it. We would like to export our ZFS configurations in case we need to import the pool onto another box. We do not want to backup the actual data in the zfs pool, that is already handled through

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
It seems like the zpool export will ques the drives and mark the pool as exported. This would be good if we wanted to move the pool at that time but we are thinking of a disaster recovery scenario. It would be nice to export just the config to where if our controller dies, we can use the zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Wolfraider wrote: It seems like the zpool export will ques the drives and mark the pool as exported. This would be good if we wanted to move the pool at that time but we are thinking of a disaster recovery scenario. It would be nice to export just the config to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
This assumes that you have the storage to replicate or at least restore all data to a DR site. While this is another way to do it, it is not really cost effective in our situation. What I am thinking is basically having 2 servers. One has the zpool attached and sharing out our data. The other

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread David Magda
On Thu, March 25, 2010 10:20, Wolfraider wrote: What I am thinking is basically having 2 servers. One has the zpool attached and sharing out our data. The other is a cold spare. The zpool is stored on 3 JBOD chassis attached with Fibrechannel. I would like to export the config at specific

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Wolfraider wrote: This assumes that you have the storage to replicate or at least restore all data to a DR site. While this is another way to do it, it is not really cost effective in our situation. If the primary and DR site aren't compatible, then it won't be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Wolfraider wrote: This assumes that you have the storage to replicate or at least restore all data to a DR site. While this is another way to do it, it is not really cost effective in our situation. If the primary and DR site aren't compatible, then it won't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread David Magda
On Thu, March 25, 2010 11:28, Wolfraider wrote: Which, when I asked the question, I wasn't sure how it all worked. I didn't know if the import process need a config file or not. I am learning alot, very quickly. We will be looking into the HA cluster in the future. The spare is a cold spare

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Wolfraider
We are sharing the LUNS out with Comstar from 1 big pool. In essence, we created our own low cost SAN. We currently have our windows clients connected with Fibrechannel to the COMSTAR target. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-25 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Wolfraider wrote: Which, when I asked the question, I wasn't sure how it all worked. I didn't know if the import process need a config file or not. I am learning alot, very quickly. We will be looking into the HA cluster in the future. The spare is a cold spare

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-24 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Wed, Mar 24 at 12:20, Wolfraider wrote: Sorry if this has been dicussed before. I tried searching but I couldn't find any info about it. We would like to export our ZFS configurations in case we need to import the pool onto another box. We do not want to backup the actual data in the zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-24 Thread Khyron
Yes, I think Eric is correct. Funny, this is an adjunct to the thread I started entitled Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies. I was going to include this point in that thread but thought better of it. It would be nice if there were an easy way to extract a pool configuration, with all of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Khyron khyron4...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I think Eric is correct. Funny, this is an adjunct to the thread I started entitled Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies. I was going to include this point in that thread but thought better of it. It would be