From: Les M. <les...@gm...> - 2009-03-18 18:41:49
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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. -- Les Mikesell les...@gm... |