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

[Ian Collins]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> What is the recommended approach to back up a zfs root pool?
>
> For other pools I use zfs send/receive and/or rsync-based methods.
>
> The zfs root pool is different since it contains multiple filesystems,
> with the filesystem for one one BE being mounted at a time:
>
<snip>

> This means that there are multiple filesystems which would need to be
> backed up in order to save a replica of the pool.
>
> At the moment I am using rsync-based backup of only selected
> filesystems.

If you don't intend reverting to older BEs (they are probably useless 
after a while anyway), remove them.

I have always used zfs send/receive to back up the root pool.

-- 
Ian.