On Mar 8, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Assume your machine has died the True Death, and you are starting with new > disks (and, at least a similar hardware setup). > > I'm going to assume that you named the original snapshot > 'rpool/ROOT/whate...@today' > > (1) Boot off the OpenSolaris LiveCD > > ... > > (10) Activate the restored BE: > # beadm activate New > > > You should now be all set. Note: I have not /explicitly/ tried the above - > I should go do that now to see what happens. :-)
If anyone is going to implement this, much the same procedure is documented at Simon Breden's blog: http://breden.org.uk/2009/08/29/home-fileserver-mirrored-ssd-zfs-root-boot/ which walks through the commands for executing the backup and the restore. --Ware _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss