On Sun, February 22, 2009 23:37, Frank Cusack wrote: > On February 22, 2009 9:56:02 PM -0600 David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, February 22, 2009 21:06, Frank Cusack wrote:
>>> Your example worked because you are "only" replicating a filesystem >>> within the root pool. This works because after setting the altroot >>> the new (replicated) filesystem mounts in a different location than >>> the original. >> >> That's all I need to do; what I need to back up is the user home >> directories. > > Ah. Sorry to introduce any confusion, then. I only mentioned it because > in your introductory text you said you needed to backup the root pool and > didn't say "filesystem within". I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter what > pool a filesystem is in, so your mention of the root pool threw me. In > fact AFAICT the problem with the root pool is not that it's some magic > pool called the root pool, it's that the root filesystem mounts on '/'. > If you had some other filesystem/pool with the mountpoint set to '/', > you'd have the same problem. Well, we're eventually getting things straightened out. I think of it as backing up the parts of the root pool worth backing up (since the software installation is very easily recreated). Furthermore, the "real" home directories are elsewhere, it's just the emergency holographic home directories (for local-only accounts used only in emergencies) that are in rpool/export/home. So just saying "home directories" didn't feel right to me. The problem I'm having isn't at the *end* of the zfs receive, it's at the beginning. Also, the receiving pool is mounted with an altroot, so stuff within it shouldn't be trying to appear at /; or rather, when it tries, it won't conflict with the real /. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
