Rob Owens wrote:
> Holger Parplies wrote:
>   
>> Your best options remain to either do a block level copy of the file system
>> (dd) or to start over. 
>>     
>
> One suggestion I've heard on this list before, which may be a good one 
> for you, is to simply start over with a new pool but save the existing 
> pool for a few weeks/months/years.  Then if you never need to restore a 
> backup from the old pool, you will have saved yourself a lot of effort.
>
>   

Yet another option often overlooked is using 'dump' instead of dd. 


DUMP(8)                   System management commands                   
DUMP(8)

NAME
       dump - ext2/3 filesystem backup

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