[zfs-discuss] ZFS

2011-09-13 Thread cephas maposah
hello team i have an issue with my ZFS system, i have 5 file systems and i need to take a daily backup of these onto tape. how best do you think i should do these? the smallest filesystem is about 50GB here is what i have been doing i take snapshots of the 5 file systems, i zfs send these into a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS

2011-09-13 Thread cephas maposah
i do send the tapes offline. The idea of sending onto another system seems an excellent idea but i would still need to send them to tape. if i tar or dump the replicated filesystems this will chew up a lot of space since my filesystems are almost 900GB in total On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:07 AM,

[zfs-discuss] zfs scripts

2011-09-09 Thread cephas maposah
i am trying to come up with a script that incorporates other scripts. eg zfs send pool/filesystem1@100911 /backup/filesystem1.snap zfs send pool/filesystem2@100911 /backup/filesystem2.snap i need to incorporate these 2 into a single script with both commands running concurrently.

[zfs-discuss] RBAC and zfs

2011-08-26 Thread cephas maposah
i would like to create a role which can take snapshots, run zfs send and zfs receive. the user switches to that role and has permissions to run those commands on a pool ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org