Prompt to synchronize two volumes ZFS

Gary Palmer gpalmer at freebsd.org
Mon Apr 18 20:09:05 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:54:18PM +0300, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote:
> 18.04.2011 21:12, Artem Belevich wrote:
> >This page outlines ZFS replication process fairly well:
> >http://wikitech-static.wikimedia.org/articles/z/f/s/Zfs_replication.html
> 
> I do not understand why dumps snapshot to a file and then deploy on a 
> remote machine?
> You can not like something is poured snapshot to another server?
> 
> zfs send -i export/upload at zrep-00001 export/upload at zrep-00002 | ssh 
> otherservername "cat > /export/save/upload at zrep-00002"
> cat /export/save/upload at rzrepl-00002 | zfs recv export/upload
> 
> Maybe there are some pitfalls?

Read further down the page.  Their reasoning is explained.

Regards,

Gary


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