On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, 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)

Or rsync, with -a, -H, and probably some other options I can't recall.
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