On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 06:52 -0700, Maurilio Longo wrote:
> I really was trying to have a full copy of my pool onto a different
> pc, so I think that I have to use -R otherwise I would loose all the
> history (monthly and weekly and daily snapshots) of my data which is
> valuable for me.
Fair enough, just disable auto-snapshots while you're doing the send -R
and you'll be ok.
> That said, I fear that during a send -R the autosnapshot service
> should be disabled on the receiving end as well or it could start to
> change the incoming filesystem; am I right?
Yes, I think so.
> And if it is so, it means that zfs send/receive cannot be used to
> really have backups of a heavily used system; apart from the
> autosnapshot service a user could be creating/deleting snapshot
> breaking the send/receive process.
Hm, that would appear to be true - it'd be worth testing it, logging a
bug against "send -R" if that's the case.
cheers,
tim
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