From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 11:23:08 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 746AE10656A5 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:23:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5D558FC15 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:23:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vhoffman.lon.namesco.net (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q17BN3tU044356 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:23:03 GMT (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <4F310997.4080107@unsane.co.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:23:03 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F31045B.9070408@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <4F31045B.9070408@nagual.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 11:23:08 -0000 On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote: > 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? > Dump works at the filesystem level and will not work on a zfs filesystem [root@banshee /backup/local/zfs]# dump -b 64 -f - ./ dump: ./: unknown file system I'd use tar or cpio or pax or something. On a UFS filesystem dump will only dump the filesystem specified and will not cross mountpoints. Vince > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"