Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew>1) Really easy and unlimited amounts of snap-shotting. As well as Matthew> making it really simple to get a coherent point-in-time backup of Matthew> an active filesystem, they also give you a really simple 'undo' Matthew> t

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/11/2011 5:59 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 11/07/2011 11:20, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various Z

Re: ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/07/2011 11:20, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very > happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the > best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various ZFS > backup filesystem streams or can I e

ZFS on root backup

2011-07-11 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various ZFS backup filesystem streams or can I easely backup the zroot pool as a whole? And if y