Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:17:25 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restoring and snapshots Message-ID: <8d45d112-d2b3-1cb4-dd1b-f8b1917b445c@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <20200410094721.GK39773@mithril.foucry.net> References: <56b4e678-0e66-e65b-b9d2-a2e79a5b7b6f@netfence.it> <20200410094721.GK39773@mithril.foucry.net>
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On 2020-04-10 11:47, Jacques Foucry wrote: > Well, may be I wrong, but I think you're going on the wrong way. > > > For me, the simplest way is to use snasphot as source of backup with something > very simple > > > zfs snapshot -r zroot/etc@now > zfs send -R zroot/etc/@now > /usㄦ/sbin/xz > user@host:etc-snap@$(date > +"%F-%T").xz That's one way of doing thing and that's (more or less) what I'm doing when I need to save a whole filessytem. However, this is not always the way to go: sometimes I only need to copy some files or integrate this with some other tool (e.g. Bacula). bye & thanks av.
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