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Date:      Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:25:23 -0500
From:      Scott Ballantyne <boyvalue@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS snapshot of root filesystem?
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Following up on my own question:

zfs snapshot zroot@MARCH_10_2011 is the way to go.

Sorry to trouble you.


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Scott Ballantyne <boyvalue@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Having a ZFS filesystem on root, such that zfs list shows:
>
> zroot  with a mountpoint of LEGACY
> zroot/tmp with a mountpoint of /tmp
> zroot/usr with a mountpoint of /usr
>
> etc.
>
> How do I create a snapshot of / ?
>
> zfs snapshot zroot/usr@March_10_2011
>
> works fine.. but that snapshots only /usr, not the upper level / right?
>
> Thanks a lot.
> Scott
>
>
>



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