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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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