On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> for windows we use ghost to backup system and >> recovery. >> can we do similar thing for solaris by ZFS? >> >> I want to create a image and install to another >> machine, >> So that the personal configuration will not be lost. > > Since I don't do Windows, I'm not familiar with ghost, but I gather from > Wikipedia that it's more a disk cloning tool (bare metal backup/restore) > than a conventional backup program, although some people may well use it > for backups too. > > Zfs has send and receive commands, which more or less correspond to > ufsdump and ufsrestore for ufs, except that the names send and receive > are perhaps more appropriate, since the zfs(1m) man page says: >> The format of the stream is evolving. No backwards compatibility is >> guaranteed. You may not be able to receive your streams on future >> versions of ZFS." > which means to me that it's not a really good choice for archiving or > long-term > backups, but it should be ok for transferring zfs filesystems between systems > that are the same OS version (or at any rate, close enough that the format > of the zfs send/receive datastream is compatible).
For now I'm just interested in zfs send/receive. If I understand correctly, zfs send/receive need an existing pool on the destination disk. what I want to do is, install the system from beginning, using my own image. Let me take an example, I bought 3 machines, I installed one, and made a lot of personal configuration, what is the easiest way to clone this one to another two by ZFS functionality? I prefer to clone the system to an USB disk first. Thanks, -Aubrey _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
