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

[David Brodbeck]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyway, based on earlier comments I'm pretty sure the OP isn't interested
>> in, or in a position to, pay for a subscription service.
>>
>
> OP == "Original Poster"?
>
> If I am the OP, then my interest is in the best way to preserve and
> restore root pool configuration (and some user data) in case the OS needs
> to be installed with the same or a very similar OS from scratch. In this
> case it is not normally necessary or desirable to restore operating system
> binaries, but portable configuration (e.g. from an OpenSolaris or
> Illumos-based system) needs to be restored in a safe way.
>

Ah, sorry.  I got two threads conflated in my head.  Time to up my morning
coffee intake, I guess!

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D. Brodbeck
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University of Washington
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