From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 16:05:34 2012 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 DEF7F1065670 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:05:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948368FC1C for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.132] (helo=smtp1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RunXx-0007SO-I7 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:33 +0100 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RunXx-0006fu-51 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:33 +0100 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 13AE4D; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 17:10:05 +0100 Message-ID: <4F314BCD.8000106@nagual.nl> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:05:33 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F31045B.9070408@nagual.nl> <4F310997.4080107@unsane.co.uk> <4F311144.6060504@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-Ziggo-spambar: ++ X-Ziggo-spamscore: 2.2 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_20=-0.001, CM_META_TB_NOARR=0.5, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D=0.665, HELO_MISC_IP=0.001, KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982, TW_ZF=0.077 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No Subject: Re: Dump Restore on ZFS root system 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: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:05:35 -0000 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.