for home or for office? for office, I don't back up root pool. it's considered disposible and reproducible via reinstall. (that plus config management) for home, you can zfs send it somewhere to a file if you want, or you can tar it up since that's probably easier to restore individual files after an oops. I do the latter. Then you could reinstall from golden image and restore the files you need.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < [email protected]> wrote: > What is the recommended approach to back up a zfs root pool? > > For other pools I use zfs send/receive and/or rsync-based methods. > > The zfs root pool is different since it contains multiple filesystems, > with the filesystem for one one BE being mounted at a time: > > % zfs list -r -t filesystem rpool > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > rpool 79.7G 377G 50K /rpool > rpool/ROOT 29.5G 377G 31K legacy > rpool/ROOT/openindiana 15.8M 377G 3.15G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-1 38.9M 377G 5.97G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-2 40.6M 377G 11.3G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-2-backup-1 124K 377G 10.5G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-3 48.4M 377G 13.2G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-3-backup-1 76K 377G 11.4G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-3-backup-2 45K 377G 11.5G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-3-backup-3 123K 377G 11.9G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-3-backup-4 44K 377G 12.1G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-4 20.1M 377G 18.8G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-4-backup-1 95K 377G 13.3G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-4-backup-2 156K 377G 18.8G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-5 17.5M 377G 18.9G / > rpool/ROOT/openindiana-6 29.4G 377G 17.6G / > rpool/export 121M 377G 32K /export > rpool/export/home 121M 377G 32K /export/home > > This means that there are multiple filesystems which would need to be > backed up in order to save a replica of the pool. > > At the moment I am using rsync-based backup of only selected filesystems. > > It is not clear to me where configuration due to utilities like 'ipadm' > and 'dladm' is stored, but I am pretty sure it is to files under the /etc > directory. > > What is recommended/common practice for backing up the root pool? > > Bob > -- > Bob Friesenhahn > [email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
