[OpenIndiana-discuss] funky beginer questions

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 11/09/2013 01:44, Antony Brooke-Wood wrote:
> My advice is to keep it simple - from what you describe, there isn't any
> reason I can see to create more than 2 file systems.
>
> One thing you might consider is setting up CrashPlan with your server.
>
> It has a native solaris installation and for $5 a month, you can have all
> of your data replicated offsite.
>
> Combine that with ZFS and snapshots, you are looking pretty safe.
>...........

 From 7 years of experience with zfs I absolutely recommend to
go the other way, create filesystems below /rmh/... for each
host. The simple reason is that you can easily snapshot each
host, transport it, or even promote it to be the root on a real
physical machine. And you can easily destroy a machine filesystem.
It's all much easier and faster than doing a tar, rm, rsync
or whatever. With ZFS there's no reason not to have filesystems
for everything. We usually have more than hundred on a single
96 TB fileserver, no problems, but great savings in manageability.

>
> On 11 September 2013 09:34, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> Running 151a8
>>
>> Now I've got oi running and becoming slightly familiar with zpool and
>> zfs cmds, I need some coaching as to how to employ the zfs fs.
>>
>> My general aim is to backup other computers but also want to have a
>> few zfs fs that serve a windows 7 box and holds lots of pictures and
>> other graphic files while work is done on them from the windows box.
>>
>> The setup I now have is all dispensable and is a practice run.  I've
>> got the smb server working and shares are available to the win7
>> machine.
>>
>> What I need is advice about the actual construction of the file
>> systems.
>>
>> Example: I have an fs p2/rmh  mounted at root /rmh  rmh stands for
>> remote hosts.
>>
>> So I have p2/rmh/host1 p2/rmh/host2 and etc.  So what is the best way
>> to go... should I have the .zfs directory at each level? At /rmh
>> at /rmh/host1 and at /rmh/host2  maybe even p2/rmh/host2/someproj,
>> with its own .zfs?
>>.....