ZFS gives us the ability to move data with ZFS send and receive. This can be used to combine snapshots, create full or incremental backups, or replicate data between servers on your LAN or even over the WAN. Local Backup with Send This is very simple, simply perform a send…
Adventures in ZFS: Solaris 11.1 Share Properties
In Solaris 11.1 Oracle decided to change the way that they stored filesystem share information. I personally loved the change, but that was without understanding what the change really was. For more information on how to enable NFS exports see my previous article here. Setup Our Environment Everything we are…
Solaris Networking: IP Multipathing Protocol
In this article we are going to go over some basics of using IPMP in Solaris. We will discuss this on the latest versions of Solaris 10 and 11 on the SPARC platform, these instructions should also work on the x86 platform, but will be dependent on the listed version…
Adventures in ZFS: NFS Exports on Solaris 10 and 11
So with ZFS you really have two ways of configuring your NFS exports, you can do it the old fashioned way (read: /etc/dfs/dfstab and share command). Or the super-duper easy method… Use ZFS metadata, and allow ZFS to configure the export for you. The reason why you might choose this…
Fedora 18: Noticing Clock Skew?
Recently I noticed that my clock was beginning to skew, and NTP wasn’t able to keep up with it. This is due to having a “system clock” and a “hardware clock” the system clock is the one that the OS controls, while the hardware clock is controlled by the BIOS…