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Rich Rauenzahn wrote:
> 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 - ext2/3 filesystem backup

Which only works for ext2/ext3 filesystem formats.... I assume there are
probably similar dump commands for some other filesystem formats under
other OS's....

BTW, is there any advantage to using dump instead of dd? ie, does it
produce less data than dd, or anything? (Not copying blank space/etc)...

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev
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