I thought that using a zfs import/export into it's own pool would work,
It works for me, at least on recent builds.
The only gotcha I'm aware of is that ZFS does not do well with I/O failures in a
non-replicated pool - it used to panic when there was read failure on a
single-disk USB pool,
It is supposed to work, though I haven't tried it.
Gary Gendel wrote:
Here is the problem I'm trying to solve...
Ive been using a sparc machine as my primary home server for years. A few years
back the motherboard died. I did a nightly backup on an external USB drive
formatted in ufs format.
Here is the problem I'm trying to solve...
Ive been using a sparc machine as my primary home server for years. A few years
back the motherboard died. I did a nightly backup on an external USB drive
formatted in ufs format. I use a rsync based backup called dirvish, so I
thought I had all the ba
