Matteo Sgalaberni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to clone the pool to a local disk attached via USB.
> I can't made it with a dd because the pool is on a raid volume
> that don't contain the pool only.
> 
> Does it exist best practice to do this?

If you have a small pool and sufficient RAM, you may be able to copy 
with a file oriented approach (rsync -H, tar, cp -a, cpio, etc). but you 
have to take everything under the directory containing the pool and pc 
subdirectories at once to maintain the hardlinks.   However, this is not 
an efficient process so there are limits to the size you can handle that 
way.  Above that, you would have to partition the raid volume and dd the 
partition to a equal-sized partition on the external disk.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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