On May 10, 10:22 am, Dave <f...@coo.com> wrote:
> I've got a Sun Blade 2000 with Solaris 10 update 5. It has a pair of
> internal 137 GB SCSI ... trimmed
> Is it possible to create snapshots of the SCSI disks (which I intend
> using for most tasks) and putting the snapshots onto the
> cheaper/slower/larger USB drives?
Probably
> The SCSI disks are close to full capacity, so I am not going to get many
> snapshots on them, whereas I have tons of space on the pool made from
> the external USB disks.
man fssnap - it can be combined with a ufsdump/ufsrestore pipe.
It creates its own sparse file but its not as big as it looks : >

The caveats that Andrew mentioned are something to consider perhaps.
Depends on sparse files and exotic permission bits etc but I suspect
these wont be issues transferring "ordinary" files..? Certainly wont
hurt to try.