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Ref: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_bootable_datasets_happily_rumbling Ref: http://mediacast.sun.com/share/timf/zfs-actual-root-install.sh This is my errata for Tim Foster''s zfs root install script: 1/ Correct mode for /tmp should be 1777. 2/ The zfs boot install should allow you to have /usr on a separate zpool...

I have created a script that gets a snapshot and backs the snapshot to tape. I would like to keep the snapshot around for one week, than destroy it using the following command: "zfs destroy snapshotlvolume." Is there a way to automate the destroying of snapshots that are older that x amount of days? This message and its attachments may contain legally privileged or

Hi, I was just wondering if ZFS root is likely to be an install option any time soon, either in SXCR or the June Solaris update? The mechanism at Tabriz''s blog seem to work well, but it''d be nice to get it out of the box. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/

Hi, As a part of the next stages of the time-slider project we are looking into doing actual backups onto removable media devices such as USB media. The goal is to be able to view snapshots stored on the media and merge these into the list of viewable snapshots in nautilus giving the user a broader selection of restore points. In an ideal world we would like to detect the insertion of the

Hi All, I just posted version 0.6 of the automatic snapshots prototype on my web log. The new features are: * ZFS send/receive support * Multiple schedules per filesystem More at: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_now_with Note, this is just something I''ve been messing about with in my free time - it''s not an official ZFS project and may not be bullet-proof enough for production. It works for me, but bug reports would be appreciated ;-) cheers, tim Tim...

Hey All, So, just to get this idea out of my brain, and on to the screen, I''ve got a prototype of a mechanism that takes automatic snapshots. More info (and a tarball!) from my blog at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/timf?entry=zfs_automatic_snapshots_prototype_1 cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Operating Platforms Group Engineering Operations http://blogs.sun.com/timf

Hi Is it possible to convert live 3 disks zpool from raidz to raidz2 And is it possible to add 1 new disk to raidz configuration without backups and recreating zpool from cratch. Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org

I don''t seem to have access to the web administration interface. It worked fine up to svn_B37, but B38 and B39 don''t appear to have it deployed. I can start the web console server "/usr/sbin/smcwebserver start" and log in as root but ZFS does not appear in the list of applications. Is there something additional I need to do? This message posted from opensolaris.org

...dards, > nothing holds you fron using something like Y = R/4 + G/2 + B/4, which > would considerably speed up codec, or sticking with good old 12-bit RGB. True, very true. Which is why the creators of Cinepak did just that with their codec over a decade ago... http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~timf/videocodec/cinepak.txt -- -Mike Melanson

hi everyone, I am planning on creating a local SAN via NFS(v4) and several redundant nodes. I have been using DRBD on linux before and now am asking whether some of you have experience on on-demand network filesystem mirrors. I have yet little Solaris sysadmin know how, but i am interesting whether there is an on-demand support for sending snapshots. I.e. not via a cron job, but via a

timf <Tim> writes: > What would be really helpfull is if someone could give me a step by > step guide to getting a Multicast Stream up and running. One of the tools you have to use is non open-source (gasp) and available from www.live.com. If anyone knows any real open source tools, please...

While playing around with ZFS and iSCSI devices I''ve managed to remove an iscsi target before removing the zpool. Now any attempt to delete the pool (with or without -f) core dumps zpool. Any ideas how I get rid of this pool? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Hi all, again might be a FAQ, but imagine that I have a pool on USB stick, I insert the stick, and how can I figure out what poools are available for ''zpool import'' without knowing their name? zpool list does not seem to be listing those, thanx, Martin

Hi everyone, Is there an easy way to find out which files has changed between two snapshots? Currently I''m doing a # rsync -arvn <snapshot1> <snapshot2> and it creates a list. But rsync needs to go through the whole filesystem and compare files. It would be nice if zfs would have this option builtin. Regards, Nickus

ZFS claims that it can recover user error such as accidentally deleting of files. How does it work? Does it only work for mirrored or RAID-Z pool? What is the command to perform the task? Also for COW, I understand that during the transaction (while data is been undated), ZFS keeps a copy of the previous data. However, once the transaction is successfully completed, isn''t it the case

Hi, I''m thinking about the following situation and I know there are some things I have to understand: I want to use two SUN-Servers with the same amount of storage capacity on both of them and I want to replicate the filesystem ( zfs ) incrementally two times a day from the first to the second one. I know that the zfs send/receive commands will do the job, but I don''t

I have a backup system using zfs send/receive (I know there are pros and cons to that, but it''s suitable for what I need). What I have now is a script which runs daily, do zfs send, compress and write it to a file, then transfer it with ftp to a remote host. It does full backup every 1st, and do incremental (with 1st as reference) after that. It works, but not quite resource-effective

Hi all, I''ve just pushed some of the changes coming up in 0.11 hg clone ssh://anon at hg.opensolaris.org/hg/jds/zfs-snapshot I''ve got some commentary on the Early Access nature of this release at: http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/zfs_automatic_snapshots_0_11 Comments (and bug reports) welcome! cheers, tim

I got overzealous with snapshot creation. Every 5 mins is a bad idea. Way too many. What''s the easiest way to delete the empty ones? zfs list takes FOREVER

This is possibly the dumbest question I have asked ever, but how do you set ACLs on files within a ZFS filesystem? Trying to use setfacl(1) diverts me to the acl(5) manpage; well, I know that I need to use NFSv4 style ACLs, but where is the utility to do so? This is on Solaris 10 Update 2. Thanks, Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don''t understand it at all.