Where /mnt is the USB drive that is in UFS filesystem format. hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1 has been copied to /export/home and I need to get
the following guidance:
Code:
( i ) List table of content of this archive
How to list the TOC of hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1?
( ii ) Create zpool called backups on the same USB drive
zpool create backups c0t0d0s2 (USB)
zpool create backups/usbdrive
cannot mount 'backups/usbdrive': failed to create mountpoint
filesystems successfully created, but not mounted
( iii ) Extract the content from this archive on to zpool backups
cat hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1 | zfs recv -d backups/usbdrive
I am stuck in step ( ii ) and need confirmation on whether command in ( iii ) will work. Also like to confirm that compression has already been used
when creating the snapshot.
It's a very slow process and I can only do it with your valuable helps.
Thanks a lot,
George
You are not compressing anything in the described procedure.
Creating an intermediary file (hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1) is an unnecessary step, you could (and should) directly pipe the "zfs send" command to a "zfs receive" one.
You are destroying your USB file system by creating a zfs pool on the very same device. Assuming you have no free partition on your USB disk, You need to create a file based pool.
There are also specific options you need to use to import a root pool as otherwise, some of the properties, especially mount points, will collide with your current root pool.
Where /mnt is the USB drive that is in UFS filesystem format. hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1 has been copied to /export/home and I need to get the following guidance:
Code:
( i ) List table of content of this archive
How to list the TOC of hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1?
( ii ) Create zpool called backups on the same USB drive
zpool create backups c0t0d0s2 (USB)
zpool create backups/usbdrive
cannot mount 'backups/usbdrive': failed to create mountpoint
filesystems successfully created, but not mounted
( iii ) Extract the content from this archive on to zpool backups
cat hostname_rpool@001.snapshot1 | zfs recv -d backups/usbdrive
I am stuck in step ( ii ) and need confirmation on whether command in ( iii ) will work. Also like to confirm that compression has already been used
when creating the snapshot.
It's a very slow process and I can only do it with your valuable helps.
Thanks a lot,
George
This is still going after running for more than 4hrs. My understanding is that this step will transfer a snapshot of all the data from local rpool & their datasets to backups zpool on USB drive. Is this correct? However, my intention has always been to create a snapshot of local rpool recursively into a single file with the following command:
Is this command correct and how to include compression in the process as well? Also, how to list toc of /export/home/hostname_rpool@001.zdump after successful creation?
Thanks so much again,
George
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Last edited by DukeNuke2; 02-14-2014 at 09:01 AM..
This is dubious, as I already wrote, you need specific options to import a root pool, at least a different root mountpoint.
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This is still going after running for more than 4hrs.
There are many factors that might affect the performance of such a command.
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My understanding is that this step will transfer a snapshot of all the data from local rpool & their datasets to backups zpool on USB drive. Is this correct?
Yes, but I suspect there will be errors because you'll end up with multiple file systems with the same mount point.
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However, my intention has always been to create a snapshot of local rpool recursively into a single file with the following command:
No. If you want to create a file, just redirect zfs send to it. This is what the link to the documentation I posted does.
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and how to include compression in the process as well?
You might just pipe through gzip.
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Also, how to list toc of /export/home/hostname_rpool@001.zdump after successful creation?
There is no way I'm aware of to list the content of such a datastream, moreover, as it usually contains volumes and snapshot, it won't be as stratforward as with a tar or cpio of ufsdump.
The only way to make sure a stored datastream is valid and list the files it contains is to extract (receive) it somewhere.
I tried to boot up the local Solaris 10 x86 operating system instead of from installation disk all along but encountered the following error:
Code:
cannot mount ‘/export’: directory is not empty
svc:/system/filesystem/local:default:WARNING:/usr/sbin/zfs mount –a failed: exit status 1
Nov 15 10:50:17 svc.startd[10]:svc:/system/filesystem/local: default: Method “/lib/svc/method/fs-local” failed with exit status 95.
svc.startd[10]: system/filesystem/local: default failed fatally: transitioned to maintenance
The bootup process is running ‘zfs mount –a’ which generates the same error when running it manually (cannot mount ‘/export’: directory is not empty), but I don’t know which table (/etc/.../*tab?) that it is looking up to get ‘/export’ and yet I can see this filesystem has already been mounted using ‘df –h’ as follows:
So I don’t understand where the issue is with mount /export which is preventing the system from booting into multi-user mode.
Not only have I not being able to create a zfs snapshot but appears to have disturbed possibly original mount point of local rpool as well.
Any idea on what to do?
Once again, I can only fix this issue with your persistent urgent advice.
Also, can I continue to generate zfs snapshot with zfs send -R -p rpool@001 > /mnt/usbdrive/hostname_rpool@001 once the system is running in multi-user mode? ie rpool is mounted.
Thanks in advance,
George
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