Rob Owens wrote:
> Holger Parplies wrote:
>
>> Your best options remain to either do a block level copy of the file system
>> (dd) or to start over.
>>
>
> One suggestion I've heard on this list before, which may be a good one
> for you, is to simply start over with a new pool but save the existing
> pool for a few weeks/months/years. Then if you never need to restore a
> backup from the old pool, you will have saved yourself a lot of effort.
>
>
Yet another option often overlooked is using 'dump' instead of dd.
DUMP(8) System management commands
DUMP(8)
NAME
dump - ext2/3 filesystem backup
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