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

[David Brodbeck]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us> wrote:

> (Scope) creeping out further, can any of the *BSD's or Lunux distro's do a
> full system restore to blank disk?


I've usually done it by booting from a LiveCD, and doing the restore from
there.  I think this is probably the ideal method.

Another method is to do a minimal OS install in a small partition, then do
the restore into a new root partition, and reboot into it.

Finally, because of the way UNIX handles open files, you can frequently get
away with restoring over top of the running OS in single-user mode, as long
as it's a closely related version to what's on the backup.  I've
successfully done this with FreeBSD, on a hosted VM where I couldn't easily
boot from an arbitrary image.

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