[geeks] ZFS help?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 12/24/21 12:20, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 12/23/21 9:42 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I'm working on bringing up my T5220.B  I should be able to put my SAS
>> controller into it and attach the external chassis to retrieve the last
>> set of full backup archive copies.

And the T5220 is being weird.  It has three physical drives installed, 
all SUN 146GB, but /dev/rdsk shows only two of them and I can only 
access one of those two.


> Have you considered booting a new enough version of Solaris i386pc to
> access the pool on the existing system?

I can't boot the existing system (the X4540) at all.  If I could get it 
to boot I wouldn't be having this problem at all.  I've even tried to 
boot it from a Solaris 11.3 text install CD to do a fresh install and 
then re-import the additional pools, but it's almost impossible to do 
anything with it because the console (external or serial) is unreadable 
garbage.

I'm trying one workaround solution after another, and so far running 
into stone walls at every turn.  This is NOT how I wanted to be spending 
my Christmas vacation.


> I would also hope that you can do a `zfs send` from the size accessing
> the data to a `zfs receive` on the side where you want the data to be
> stored.  (Hopefully you have enough storage capacity to temporarily
> duplicate the pool.)

Take one guess where all of my bulk storage is.




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