solaris OSX Time Machine Backups to Solaris ZFS Volume Tested on Solaris 11.1, Netatalk 3.0.4, and OSX 10.8.4 Goal: Back up the household laptops over the network to a solaris fileserver This seems to work better with AFP rather than SMB, so I installed netatalk 3.0.4 from source. Note: This was cobbled
solaris Automated monthly ZFS pool scrubbing Tested on solaris 11.1, but should work 10 and up. Just a quick shell script and cron job to perform a monthly scrub of all pools in your system. Whether this is appropriate or not depends on the frequency of data reads in your system and whether they would
solaris Automatic ZFS snapshots on Solaris 11 Solaris 11 has a built-in mechanism to take hourly/daily/weekly snapshots of your ZFS datasets, e.g. rpool/export/home. The service is called "time-slider", which can integrate with a nice GUI (which I don't have installed. Older snapshots are automatically deleted either when space is too
solaris "Cannot read the pool label from " after changing boot controller _The statements and opinions expressed here are my own__ and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation._ _This post applies to: Solaris 11 express running on x86 hardware_ **Problem: **After changing my boot controller (as part of a motherboard change, solaris stopped booting, giving the error below:
solaris Sharing a ZFS filesystem with ACLs to OSX clients _The statements and opinions expressed here are my own__ and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation._ _Systems used in this article: Solaris 11 express, OSX 10.7 Lion_ ZFS provides useful NFSv4 ACLs, which are shared over the network when NFSv4 is used. ... however OSX's