[OpenIndiana-discuss] What is the recommended way to back up root pool?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, David Brodbeck wrote:
> In ye olden days, or on FreeBSD, I'd probably back up /etc (and, on BSD,
> /usr/local/etc) with rsync and assume that would capture the configuration.
>
> With SMF, which is opaque about its config file locations, I suspect that
> wouldn't do it.  I think the service configuration settings are scattered
> around the filesystem, with some of it under /lib.

Probably the subject line should have been "What is the recommended 
way to restore configuration from the root pool"?

It seems easy enough to back up the root pool (via filesystem or zfs 
send) but restoring the desired parts on top of a freshly installed 
root pool (perhaps based on a fresher OS release) is not so clear. 
For example, how does one restore persistent networking configuration 
(links, bridges, IP interfaces)?

Bob
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