On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:28 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > The only tool I'm aware of today that provides a copy of the data, and all of > the ZPL metadata and all the ZFS dataset properties is 'zfs send'.
AFAIK, this is correct. Further, the only type of tool that can backup a pool is a tool like dd. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss