Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:55:55 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on root backup Message-ID: <86box0og5w.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <4E1AD77F.7050900@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:59:11 %2B0100") References: <4E1ACE74.2040809@nagual.nl> <4E1AD77F.7050900@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: Matthew> 1) Really easy and unlimited amounts of snap-shotting. As well as Matthew> making it really simple to get a coherent point-in-time backup of Matthew> an active filesystem, they also give you a really simple 'undo' Matthew> type functionality, so you can unwind accidental deletions and Matthew> other user mistakes. And with zxfer (in ports), very simple means to transfer those snapshots to another location. I'm using that now on multiple machines, and it's nearly flawless. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
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