On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Richard Elling wrote:
On Mar 6, 2010, at 5:38 PM, tomwaters wrote:
My though is this, I remove the 3rd mirror disk and offsite it as a backup.
To do this either:
1. upgrade to a later version where the zpool split command is
available
2. zfs send/receive
Hi tomwater!
I think this is a great idea and may be the only reasonable way to backup tera
bytes of data with low cost disks. And the idea is quite popular, just google
*split mirror backup* and get lots of results. I also intend to use ZFS like
this.
- 3 way mirror
- 1 disk offsite at all
Thanks guys,
It's all working perfectly so farand very easy too.
Given that my boot disks (consumer laptop drives) cost only ~$60AUD each, it's
a cheap way to maintain high availability and backup.
ZFS does not seem to mind having one of the 3 offline so I'd recomend this to
others
Hi guys,
On my home server (2009.6) I have a 2 HDD's in a mirrored rpool.
I just added a 3rd to the mirror and made all disks bootable (ie. installgrub
on the mirror disks).
My though is this, I remove the 3rd mirror disk and offsite it as a backup.
That way if I mess up the rpool, I can
On Mar 6, 2010, at 5:38 PM, tomwaters wrote:
Hi guys,
On my home server (2009.6) I have a 2 HDD's in a mirrored rpool.
I just added a 3rd to the mirror and made all disks bootable (ie. installgrub
on the mirror disks).
My though is this, I remove the 3rd mirror disk and offsite it as
