From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 7 11:55:51 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 14B5710656D6 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:55:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.34.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF99B8FC0A for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 11:55:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.34.139] (helo=smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RujeH-00080m-69 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:55:49 +0100 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp8.gn.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RujeG-0002k8-WD for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:55:49 +0100 Received: from [192.168.11.34] (192.168.11.34) by yanta (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 06A23E; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:00:22 +0100 Message-ID: <4F311144.6060504@nagual.nl> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:55:48 +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@freebsd.org References: <4F31045B.9070408@nagual.nl> <4F310997.4080107@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F310997.4080107@unsane.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: 0.3 X-Ziggo-spamreport: BAYES_00=-1.9, CM_META_TB_NOARR=0.5, FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_D=0.665, HELO_MISC_IP=0.001, KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001, RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982, TW_ZF=0.077 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No 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 11:55:51 -0000 Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef: > 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. OK, got it. I will have to read up on the best option (tar, cpio or pax)