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
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