On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Darren J Moffat
<darr...@opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Steven Sim wrote:
>>
>> Hello;
>>
>> How do we dedup existing data?
>
> Currently by running a zfs send | zfs recv.
>
>> Will a ZFS send to an output file in a temporary staging area in the same
>> pool and a subsequent reconstruct (zfs receive) from the file be sufficient?
>
> Yes but you can avoid the temp file and just do zfs send | zfs recv.
This kinda assumes you have enough capacity to accommodate up to twice
(worst case) your current data. Correct ?
I have my home server ~ 80% full, so I am moving data into new
filesystem like that:
rsync --remove-source-files
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Regards,
Cyril
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