From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 11:00:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6730A10656AD for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:00:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2268F8FC12 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.133] (helo=smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ruimx-0006iI-JI for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:43 +0100 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ruimx-0000MJ-BD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:43 +0100 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1CF79A; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:05:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4F31045B.9070408@nagual.nl> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:43 +0100 From: dick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: -0.2 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D=0.665, HELO_MISC_IP=0.001, KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982, TW_EV=0.077 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No Subject: Dump Restore on ZFS root system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:00:45 -0000 I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine. My question is: will dump / (root) make a dump of *ALL* other directories? yanta# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on zroot 56G 335M 55G 1% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev zroot/tmp 56G 42M 55G 0% /tmp zroot/usr 60G 4.7G 55G 8% /usr zroot/usr/home 58G 2.4G 55G 4% /usr/home zroot/usr/ports 56G 253M 55G 0% /usr/ports zroot/usr/ports/distfiles 56G 291M 55G 1% /usr/ports/distfiles zroot/usr/ports/packages 55G 21K 55G 0% /usr/ports/packages zroot/var 56G 571M 55G 1% /var zroot/var/crash 55G 23K 55G 0% /var/crash zroot/var/db 56G 337M 55G 1% /var/db zroot/var/db/pkg 55G 3.7M 55G 0% /var/db/pkg zroot/var/empty 55G 21K 55G 0% /var/empty zroot/var/log 55G 827K 55G 0% /var/log zroot/var/mail 55G 22K 55G 0% /var/mail zroot/var/run 55G 53K 55G 0% /var/run zroot/var/tmp 55G 143K 55G 0% /var/tmp devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev