[Discuss] Backing up the entire filesystem

Shirley Márquez Dúlcey mark at buttery.org
Fri Oct 26 13:40:27 EDT 2018


I don't think any of the usual bootloaders support ZFS. The usual way
to handle that is to create a small /boot filesystem using something
else like ext4, just like you did back in the days when large hard
drives weren't supported by the BIOS and therefore the bootloader
couldn't access their entire capacity. The installers for most distros
can handle setting up a system that way.
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 12:32 PM Marco Milano <marco.milano at gmx.com> wrote:
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> On 10/26/18 11:38 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
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> > Having recently-ish rebuilt my home server with full ZFS I have to say
> > that ZFS makes backups ridiculously easy. And quick.
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> How did you get the root filesystem under ZFS?
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> Is there a nice/clean/easy recipe ?
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> -- Marco
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