what is the "correct" way to "replicate" mem stick with ZFS on it?

[Martin Matuska]

Hi Zeus,

you can use dd, if the target stick has the same (or larger) size but
you have to export the pool first.

Other option is to create a ZFS mirror of both sticks, resilver it and
then use the "zpool split" subcommand. If you do it this way, the new
pool will require a different name, so you have to rename it by
reimporting it under the original name (after exporting the original pool).

A third working but not that nice way is to create a ZFS mirror,
resilver it and export it. Then you may physically separate the devices
and load the second one on the other system. Remember, it will always be
loaded as a mirror with one missing device, so you have to detach the
missing device later.

Cheers,
mm

On 2013-08-16 15:25, Zeus Panchenko wrote:
> hi all,
>
> please, advice
>
> what is the "correct" way to "replicate" mem stick with ZFS on it?
>
> what I mean:
>
> we have mem stick with ZFS pool `mypool' on it
>
> how to get copy of the mem stick (including the name of the pool)?
>
> - `zfs send ... | zfs receive ...' ?
>
>  is not what will help untill pool names
>  on both mem sticks are the same (it is not what I want)
>
> - to make mirror and to detach second mem stick after resilvering?
>
>  I have bad experience with detaching (perhapse I do it wrong way)
>
> - dd ?
>