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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015, Doug Hughes wrote:

> for home or for office?
> for office, I don't back up root pool. it's considered disposible and
> reproducible via reinstall. (that plus config management)
> for home, you can zfs send it somewhere to a file if you want, or you can
> tar it up since that's probably easier to restore individual files after an
> oops. I do the latter. Then you could reinstall from golden image and
> restore the files you need.

Assume that this is for a network server with advanced network 
configuration settings, ssh config, zones, etc.

If was the same as a standard OS install without subsequent 
configuration, then backing up would not be so important.

Bob
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