Hi Euan, For full root pool recovery see the ZFS Administration Guide, here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ghzvz?l=en&a=view Recovering the ZFS Root Pool or Root Pool Snapshots Additional scenarios and details are provided in the ZFS troubleshooting wiki. The link is here but the site is not responding at the moment: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide Check back here later today. Thanks, Cindy On 04/28/10 23:02, Euan Thoms wrote:
I'm looking for a way to backup my entire system, the rpool zfs pool to an external HDD so that it can be recovered in full if the internal HDD fails. Previously with Solaris 10 using UFS I would use ufsdump and ufsrestore, which worked so well, I was very confident with it. Now ZFS doesn't have an exact replacement of this so I need to find a best practice to replace it. I'm guessing that I can format the external HDD as a pool called 'backup' and "zfs send -R ... | zfs receive ..." to it. What I'm not sure about is how to restore. Back in the days of UFS, I would boot of the Solaris 10 CD in single user mode command prompt, partition HDD with correct slices, format it, mount it and ufsrestore the entire filesystem. With zfs, I don't know what I'm doing. Can I just make a pool called rpool and zfs send/receive it back?
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