On Feb 16, 2011, at 7:38 AM, white...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, I have a very limited amount of bandwidth between main office and a > colocated rack of servers in a managed datacenter. My hope is to be able to > zfs send/recv small incremental changes on a nightly basis as a secondary > offsite backup strategy. My question is about the initial "seed" of the data. > Is it possible to use a portable drive to copy the initial zfs filesystem(s) > to the remote location and then make the subsequent incrementals over the > network? If so, what would I need to do to make sure it is an exact copy? > Thank you,
Yes, and this is a good idea. Once you have replicated a snapshot, it will be an exact replica -- it is an all-or-nothing operation. You can then make more replicas or incrementally add snapshots. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
