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

[Jason Matthews]

Go old school. Use dd to manually mirror two or more identical drives. 

Apply boot blocks. Nail the boot device in Lsi or bios. 

J. 

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> On Oct 28, 2015, at 5:59 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:
> 
>> 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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