On Sun, February 22, 2009 21:06, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 22, 2009 8:03:38 PM -0600 David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, February 22, 2009 18:11, Frank Cusack wrote: >>> Did you see my other thread on this specific topic? You can't backup >>> the root pool using zfs send -R | zfs recv. >> >> Nope, somehow missed the import of that. >> >> I'm only trying to back up the rpool/export/home portion of the root >> pool; >> is that still impossible? >> >> Because so far as I can tell, *that* part is working; it's adding a >> second >> fs that I'm having trouble with. >> >> In the example I posted, this bit WORKED in one case: >> >># zfs create bup-ruin/fsfs/rpool >># zfs send -R rpool/export/h...@bup-20090216-044512utc | zfs recv -d >> bup-ruin/fsfs/rpool >> >> I'll find that other thread and check up; is it a consistent failure or >> intermittent, though? > > Intermittent? That would indicate some type of transient problem, not > "can't".
I was asking because if the problem you were describing was consistent then it's NOT my problem. > Your example worked because you are "only" replicating a filesystem > within the root pool. This works because after setting the altroot > the new (replicated) filesystem mounts in a different location than > the original. That's all I need to do; what I need to back up is the user home directories. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss