zfs discuss - May 2007 - zfs backup and restore

Hi,

I believe Solaris 10 version 3 supports zfs backup and restore. How can I
upgrade previous versions of Solaris to run zfs backup/restore and where to
download the relevant versions.

Also, I have a customer wanting to know (now I am interested too) the detailed
information of how the zfs snapshot and cloning works. Mostly to justify/explain
the speed of cloning.

Thanks 

Roshan

A good place to start is: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/

Have a look at:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/

as well as

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#

Create some files, which you can use as disks within zfs and demo to
your customer precisely what happens on a small scale using snapshots
and clones and promotions.

Cheers

On 5/25/07, Roshan Perera <Roshan.Perera at sun.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe Solaris 10 version 3 supports zfs backup and restore. How can I
upgrade previous versions of Solaris to run zfs backup/restore and where to
download the relevant versions.
>
> Also, I have a customer wanting to know (now I am interested too) the
detailed information of how the zfs snapshot and cloning works. Mostly to
justify/explain the speed of cloning.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roshan
>
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