Rich Freeman on 22 Feb 2013 13:34:37 -0800 |
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Re: [PLUG] Solaris backup/restore |
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org> wrote: > dd looks like it might stand for double disaster if the server uses zfs I'd be interested in elaboration here. I'd consider dd highly inefficient, but as long as you get all the devices involved you can't go wrong with a complete bit-image of a device (assuming you restore to a device of the same size/geometry/etc). Of course, using a more appropriate tool to the filesystem is going to be better all-around. Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug