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

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Ian Collins писал 11.11.2015 07:43:
> 2) Make /etc a mercurial repository and push it to another host. This
> allows me to track file changes and quickly recover if I stuff
> something up.

Have you looked at fsvs? It also tries to preserve permissions.

We have backup/fsvs in OI Hipster repository.
I haven't used it actively on Solaris/illumos systems, but it works 
rather good on our Linux servers.

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