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Date:      Tue, 23 Aug 2016 22:05:11 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
Cc:        "Brandon J. Wandersee" <brandon.wandersee@gmail.com>, "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Root on ZFS, LiveCD and BE
Message-ID:  <20160823150511.GA6279@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
In-Reply-To: <CALfReydVvRzdq=KPJcr-bo-zLmEDRExr=dPrv-_oQS1=%2BX9Ciw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20160815145419.GA3619@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20160815231414.GA84125@neutralgood.org> <20160820105438.GA59960@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <86lgzq1510.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20160821174246.GA73293@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <86h9aelz9g.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20160822150455.GA87440@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <CALfReydVvRzdq=KPJcr-bo-zLmEDRExr=dPrv-_oQS1=%2BX9Ciw@mail.gmail.com>

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krad wrote:
> If you are really that worried about the pool in question and potential
> damage I would do an image of the drive(s) before doing anything. Than you
> can restore if anything does go horribly wrong.
> 
> I'm suprised nobody has mentioned this.

Probably because it's a) trivial and b) not always feasible (you don't
always have enough disk space and/or network bandwidth or can't afford
time to make a verbatim image of an entire drive of a system to be
repaired).

If by making an image you imply not dd, but "zfs send", then you have
to import the pool anyway.

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru



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