Erik Trimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "bare-metal" restore generally means that you give it a piece of
> hardware with nothing installed on it, boot it somehow, and the
> "restore" program can bring the machine all the way back up to a
> previously-stored state.
>
> Norton Ghost has two main purposes, which are related, but not the
> same: restoring a fixed configuration to bare metal, and creating
> clones of a configuration. The first is for bare metal recovery of a
> crashed (or dead) system back to a previous known state. The second is
> for using on similar (or identical hardware) to duplicate the same
> configuration across multiple machines.
OK, so zfs send/receive handles the rare case where a complete crash happened.
ufsrestore in addition handles the more "popular" case where a single file
needs to be restored. I know that this case can be made less frequent by using
zfs snapshots.....
Jörg
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