markpat3rson
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- Jul 22, 2012
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Greetings. I am using FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x64 (r11950).
I am new, not only to this forum, but to ZFS and FreeNAS too. So please go easy on me!
I'm currently testing out FreeNAS on Parallels Desktop 7.0 on OS X Lion. My intention is to play around with it until I feel comfortable, and then purchase a server, possibly a HP ProLiant ML110 G7 E3-1220, with 4x 3TB WD Green drives. I want to offload the majority of my files to this, and have a more lean, mean desktop machine.
In Parallels, I have created 6 virtual hard disks for testing purposes. In FreeNAS I have created 2 zpools with them…
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
Backup 185G 2.80M 185G 0% ONLINE /mnt
Splash 185G 139M 185G 0% ONLINE /mnt
Inside 'Splash' I have a dataset called 'Data' which has a few files inside, for testing purposes.
I want to see if it's possible, using ZFS send / receive to copy my files from 'Splash' onto 'Backup'.
So, after some research I found out that I needed to create a snapshot first.
I ssh'd into FreeNAS as root, and ran the command…
# zfs snapshot -r Splash@001
Then I ran the command…
# zfs send Splash@001 | zfs recv -F Backup
This created a subfolder on Backup called 'Data'. I'm not sure if this is a true 'dataset' or just a normal folder, but either way, the folder is EMPTY. The snapshot was created AFTER i copied the files over, so I have no idea why they are not being copied over.
zfs list reveals this…
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
Backup 1.79M 121G 1.29M /mnt/Backup
Splash 92.5M 121G 160K /mnt/Splash
Splash/Data 91.9M 121G 91.8M /mnt/Splash/Data
What am I doing wrong?
Ultimately, the goal here (for when I have my real life server) I to use 'Backup' as an offsite backup, so I can bring the disks home, plug them into the spare SATA slots, do the send/receive to update my Backup to the latest snapshot, then unplug the drives again.
I know I could send individual Datasets, but my intention is to have several, and I'd rather send them all in one go.
I am new, not only to this forum, but to ZFS and FreeNAS too. So please go easy on me!
I'm currently testing out FreeNAS on Parallels Desktop 7.0 on OS X Lion. My intention is to play around with it until I feel comfortable, and then purchase a server, possibly a HP ProLiant ML110 G7 E3-1220, with 4x 3TB WD Green drives. I want to offload the majority of my files to this, and have a more lean, mean desktop machine.
In Parallels, I have created 6 virtual hard disks for testing purposes. In FreeNAS I have created 2 zpools with them…
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
Backup 185G 2.80M 185G 0% ONLINE /mnt
Splash 185G 139M 185G 0% ONLINE /mnt
Inside 'Splash' I have a dataset called 'Data' which has a few files inside, for testing purposes.
I want to see if it's possible, using ZFS send / receive to copy my files from 'Splash' onto 'Backup'.
So, after some research I found out that I needed to create a snapshot first.
I ssh'd into FreeNAS as root, and ran the command…
# zfs snapshot -r Splash@001
Then I ran the command…
# zfs send Splash@001 | zfs recv -F Backup
This created a subfolder on Backup called 'Data'. I'm not sure if this is a true 'dataset' or just a normal folder, but either way, the folder is EMPTY. The snapshot was created AFTER i copied the files over, so I have no idea why they are not being copied over.
zfs list reveals this…
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
Backup 1.79M 121G 1.29M /mnt/Backup
Splash 92.5M 121G 160K /mnt/Splash
Splash/Data 91.9M 121G 91.8M /mnt/Splash/Data
What am I doing wrong?
Ultimately, the goal here (for when I have my real life server) I to use 'Backup' as an offsite backup, so I can bring the disks home, plug them into the spare SATA slots, do the send/receive to update my Backup to the latest snapshot, then unplug the drives again.
I know I could send individual Datasets, but my intention is to have several, and I'd rather send them all in one go.