OpenSolaris : Exporting a ZFS filesystem with CIFS

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

If you need to export ZFS volumes through CIFS, follow this simple step by step procedure.
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Backups : a personnal implementation

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might have seen posts about SSH, RSYNC, ZFS Snapshots and so on. This article aims at describing the big picture, and to explain how I’ve been using those tools and technologies to build my own home backup system.

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Sun Solaris 10 : Creating snapshots with ZFS

Friday, May 9th, 2008

ZFS is a great filesystem. Amongst its many features, it has snapshots. Let’s see how to use them.

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