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On May 14, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
> | Think what you are looking for would be a combination of a snapshot
> | and zfs send/receive, that would give you an archive that you can
> use
> | to recreate your zfs filesystems on your zpool at will at later
> time.
>
> Talking of using zfs send/recieve for backups and archives: the
> Solaris 10U4 zfs manpage contains some blood-curdling warnings about
> there being no cross-version compatability promises for the output
> of 'zfs send'. Can this be ignored in practice, or is it a real issue?
It's real! You cant send and receive between versions of ZFS.
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> (Speaking as a sysadmin, I certainly hope that it is a misplaced
> warning. Even ignoring backups and archives, imagine the fun if you
> cannot use 'zfs send | zfs receive' to move a ZFS filesystem from an
> old but reliable server running a stable old Solaris to your new, just
> installed server running the latest version of Solaris.)
If you use external storage array attached via FC,iscsi,SAS etc, you
can just do a 'zpool export', disconnect the storage from the old
server, attach it to the new server then run 'zpool import' - and then
do a 'zpool upgrade'. Unfortunately this doesn't help the thumpers so
much :(
>
>
> - cks
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-Andy
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