Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 21:31:17 +0800 From: Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd guest on azure Message-ID: <610D9FF5-891C-4657-BA2A-1E38D41AFF35@fjl.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20190323125414.GA43521@rpi3.zyxst.net> References: <20190323125414.GA43521@rpi3.zyxst.net>
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On 23 March 2019 20:54:15 GMT+08:00, tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst=2Enet> w= rote: >Hi, > >If you're running a freebsd instance on azure, > >1=2E can you back up the instance > >-without azure's own tools >-or with azures own tools (and I imagine it costs extra) > >2=2E or if you can't directly back up the instance, apart from tarring up >the directories you need to keep and downloading them from the >instance,=20 >what do you do? First off, if I'm doing this on Azure then someone with deep pockets and a= Microsoft fixation is paying=2E I thought I'd make that clear! As to your question, what I've done is run a ZFS pool and simply send a sn= apshot=2E I can't remember now if I made it boot from ZFS as I prefer to bo= ot from UFS and use ZFS for the rest=2E But I think I did this with Azure e= xactly because I wanted to copy the disk around=2E It was early last year= so you can't quite me on it=2E If you're not sure about sending datasets on ZFS then ask=2E Regards, Frank=2E --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E
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