> Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> writes: > >> This will probably get me bombed with napalm but I often just >> use star from Jörg Schilling because its dead easy : >> >> star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir >> >> and you're done.[1] >> >> So long as you have both the new and the old zfs/ufs/whatever[2] >> filesystems mounted. It doesn't matter if they are static or not. If >> anything changes on the filesystem then star will tell you about it. > > I'm not sure I see how that is easier. > > The command itself may be but it requires other moves not shown in > your command. > > 1) zfs create z2/projects > > 2) star -copy -p -acl -sparse -dump -C old_dir . new_dir > > As a bare minimum would be required. > > whereas > zfs send z1/proje...@snap |zfs receive z2/proje...@snap > > Is all that is necessary using zfs send receive, and the new > filesystem z2/projects is created and populated with data from > z1/projects, not to mention a snapshot at z2/projects/.zfs/snapshot
sort of depends on what you want to get done and both work. dc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
