All of which sound like good reasons to use send/receive and a 2nd zfs pool instead of mirroring.
Send/receive has the advantage that the receiving filesystem is guaranteed to be in a stable state. How would you go about recovering the system in the event of a drive failure though? Would you have to replace the system drive, boot off a solaris DVD and then connect the external drive and send/receive it back? It won't be quick, but replacing a failed single boot drive never is. Would it be possible to combine the send/receive backup with a scripted installation saved on the external media? Something that allows you to get working again quickly, with your data getting restored a little more slowly (but accessible in a read-only form on the backup disk while this happens)? I appreciate this is a much more complex solution, but is it something that should be considered? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
