From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 11 17:56:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25822106566C for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:56:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from merlyn@stonehenge.com) Received: from mail.mroute.net (lax-gw06.mailroute.net [199.89.0.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D9638FC08 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45D0C5E1; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:56:11 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by MailRoute Received: from red.stonehenge.com (red.stonehenge.com [208.79.95.2]) by lax-gw06.mroute.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150CAC5DE; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:55:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: by red.stonehenge.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F40F92E2A; Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Matthew Seaman References: <4E1ACE74.2040809@nagual.nl> <4E1AD77F.7050900@infracaninophile.co.uk> x-mayan-date: Long count = 12.19.18.9.11; tzolkin = 8 Chuen; haab = 19 Tzec Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:55:55 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4E1AD77F.7050900@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:59:11 +0100") Message-ID: <86box0og5w.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on root backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:56:23 -0000 >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew> 1) Really easy and unlimited amounts of snap-shotting. As well as Matthew> making it really simple to get a coherent point-in-time backup of Matthew> an active filesystem, they also give you a really simple 'undo' Matthew> type functionality, so you can unwind accidental deletions and Matthew> other user mistakes. And with zxfer (in ports), very simple means to transfer those snapshots to another location. I'm using that now on multiple machines, and it's nearly flawless. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion