zpool from 32bit os to 64bit os

[Mike.]

On 8/12/2014 at 9:43 AM Paul Kraus wrote:

|On Aug 12, 2014, at 3:22, Lukasz <lukasz at chroot.pl> wrote:
|
|> Thank you for answers. I'll try with export/import... I hope my
data
|> will be safe during this operation. :)
|
|If you want your data to be really, really safe, then:


0. Make at least one backup of the data before doing anything else,
and make sure the backup worked.



|
|1. Make sure to export from the original server. While you *can*
force the
|import on the new server, I really, really hate using the force
option as
|the check you are overriding is there for a reason. Sometimes you
don’t
|have a choice, but this is not a Disaster Recovery situation (and
you do
|not want it to become one).
|
|2. When you run the initial `zpool import` on the new system it will
list
|the zpools it finds *and* their state. If the zpool is not complete
or is
|any way not clean, then DO NOT IMPORT it and put the drives back in
the
|old system and figure out what is wrong there.
|
|3. When you run the `zpool import <zpool name || ID>` also set the
|readonly property using the -o option. This way if there is some
kind of
|incompatibility (and ZFS does check for this and should want you,
but it
|never really hurts to be paranoid) the new system will not write
anything
|to the zpool.
|
|4. If the readonly import goes well and all the data is there and
looks
|good, then export the zpool and import it again without the readonly
|property and you should be all set.
|
|The above may be overkill (depending on what your data is worth :-),
but I
|have seen bugs in ZFS (although not very many in the past few years,
I’ve
|been using ZFS since about 2007) and the additional time can save
you lots
|of time in recovery later on.
|
|--
|Paul Kraus
|paul at kraus-haus.org
|
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