Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:33 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system Message-ID: <4F314BCD.8000106@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <DFE5D158-4B62-48BD-B014-B37E67561929@adelaide.edu.au> References: <4F31045B.9070408@nagual.nl> <4F310997.4080107@unsane.co.uk> <4F311144.6060504@nagual.nl> <DFE5D158-4B62-48BD-B014-B37E67561929@adelaide.edu.au>
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Op 7-2-2012 15:18, William Brown schreef: > On 07/02/2012, at 22:25, dick wrote: > >> Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: >>> On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: >>>> I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots >>>> but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this >>>> system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine. >>>> My question is: will dump / (root) make a dump of *ALL* other >>>> directories? >>>> >>> Dump works at the filesystem level and will not work on a zfs filesystem >>> [root@banshee /backup/local/zfs]# dump -b 64 -f - ./ >>> dump: ./: unknown file system >>> >>> I'd use tar or cpio or pax or something. >>> On a UFS filesystem dump will only dump the filesystem specified and >>> will not cross mountpoints. >> OK, got it. I will have to read up on the best option (tar, cpio or pax) >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Why not use the ZFS send / receive command? After reading the info on http://www.aisecure.net/2011/03/26/cloning-a-zfs-bootable-system/ I might be doing that. Sounds not too difficult and it is not really a problem to have ZFS on the virtual machine. It runs good enough, at least solaris 11 runs smoothly as a VM. Thanks for the tips.
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