Re: freebsd guest on azure

2019-03-25 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 2019-03-23 18:57, tech-lists wrote: On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 09:31:17PM +0800, Frank Leonhardt wrote: As to your question, what I've done is run a ZFS pool and simply send a snapshot. That's a good idea. I presumed I'd be stuck just with UFS. My most favoured way of doing this is having a z

Re: freebsd guest on azure

2019-03-23 Thread tech-lists
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 09:31:17PM +0800, Frank Leonhardt wrote: As to your question, what I've done is run a ZFS pool and simply send a snapshot. That's a good idea. I presumed I'd be stuck just with UFS. My most favoured way of doing this is having a zfs-vol backed vm on a freebsd host but i

Re: freebsd guest on azure

2019-03-23 Thread Frank Leonhardt
On 23 March 2019 20:54:15 GMT+08:00, tech-lists wrote: >Hi, > >If you're running a freebsd instance on azure, > >1. can you back up the instance > >-without azure's own tools >-or with azures own tools (and I imagine it costs extra) > >2. or if you can't directly back up the instance, apart fro

freebsd guest on azure

2019-03-23 Thread tech-lists
Hi, If you're running a freebsd instance on azure, 1. can you back up the instance -without azure's own tools -or with azures own tools (and I imagine it costs extra) 2. or if you can't directly back up the instance, apart from tarring up the directories you need to keep and downloading them f