On May 14, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
| Think what you are looking for would be a combination of a snapshot
| and zfs send/receive, that would give you an archive that you can
use
| to recreate your zfs filesystems on your zpool at will at later
time.
Talking of using
Andy Lubel wrote:
On May 14, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
| Think what you are looking for would be a combination of a snapshot
| and zfs send/receive, that would give you an archive that you can
use
| to recreate your zfs filesystems on your zpool at will at later
time.
Andy Lubel wrote:
On May 14, 2008, at 10:39 AM, Chris Siebenmann wrote:
| Think what you are looking for would be a combination of a snapshot
| and zfs send/receive, that would give you an archive that you can
use
| to recreate your zfs filesystems on your zpool at will at later
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Hans wrote:
hello,
can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command?
when i work with linux i use partimage to create an image from one partitino
and store it on another. so i can restore it if an error.
partimage do not work with zfs, so i must use the DD command.
i
thank you for your posting.
well i still have problems understanding how a pool works.
when i have one partition with zfs like this:
/dev/sda1 - ZFS
/dev/sda2 - ext2
the only pool is on the sda1 device. in this way i can backup it with the dd
command.
now i try to understand:
when i have 2 zfs
Hans,
hello,
can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command?
Yes, with restrictions.
First, a ZFS storage pool must be in the zpool export state to be
copied, so that a write-order consistent set of data exists in the
copy. ZFS does an excellent job of detecting inconsistencies in
Hi Hans,
Think what you are looking for would be a combination of a snapshot
and zfs send/receive, that would give you an archive that you can use
to recreate your zfs filesystems on your zpool at will at later time.
So you can do something like this
Create archive :
zfs snapshot -r
hello
thank you for your postings. i try to understood. but my english is not so
good. :-)
for exporting a zfs i must use a special command like
zspool export
this makes the filesystem ready to export.
but i think so:
when i boot from the live cd without mounting/activating the file system , the
hello,
can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command?
when i work with linux i use partimage to create an image from one partitino
and store it on another. so i can restore it if an error.
partimage do not work with zfs, so i must use the DD command.
i think so:
DD IF=/dev/sda1
Hans wrote:
hello,
can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command?
when i work with linux i use partimage to create an image from one partitino
and store it on another. so i can restore it if an error.
partimage do not work with zfs, so i must use the DD command.
i think so:
DD
Hans wrote:
hello,
can i create a image from ZFS with the DD command?
You're probably looking for zfs send - have a go at the man-page and see
whether that serves the purpose.
HTH
Michael
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