I need some help please. I am currently using a compact flash as the boot drive (ZFS) on a thumper. I want to create a clone of it to a file and restore it to a new CF card on another thumper. Unfortunately, an exact make, model and size of the CF has a few less cylinders so a straight dd of the slice2 does not work. Now I have to navigate the intricacies of the trying to clone rpool etc, which I haven''t yet mastered. Any suggestions for a quicker resolution is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Cau Ba -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Can''t you just boot from an OpenSolaris CD, create a ZFS pool on the new device, and just do a ZFS send/receive directly to it? So long as there''s enough space for the data, a send/receive won''t care at all that the systems are different sizes. I don''t know what you need to do to a pool to make it bootable I''m afraid, so I don''t know if this will just work or if it''ll need some more tweaking. However if you have any problems you should be able to find more information about how ZFS boot works online. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
On 06/28/09 08:41, Ross wrote:> Can''t you just boot from an OpenSolaris CD, create a ZFS pool on the new device, and just do a ZFS send/receive directly to it? So long as there''s enough space for the data, a send/receive won''t care at all that the systems are different sizes. > > I don''t know what you need to do to a pool to make it bootable I''m afraid, so I don''t know if this will just work or if it''ll need some more tweaking. However if you have any problems you should be able to find more information about how ZFS boot works online. >A procedure for making a backup of a root pool and then restoring it is at: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide#ZFS_Root_Pool_Recovery Lori