zfs discuss - Jun 2009 - how to do backup

I have a USB disk, to which I want to do a backup. I''ve used send |
receive. It works fine until I try to reboot. At that point the system fails to
come up because the backup copy is set to be mounted at the original location so
the system tries to mount two different things the same place. I guess I can
have the script set mountpoint=none, but I''d think there would be a
better approach.
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On 20/06/2009, at 9:55 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote:
> I have a USB disk, to which I want to do a backup. I''ve used send
|
> receive. It works fine until I try to reboot. At that point the  
> system fails to come up because the backup copy is set to be mounted  
> at the original location so the system tries to mount two different  
> things the same place. I guess I can have the script set  
> mountpoint=none, but I''d think there would be a better approach.
Would a "zpool export $backup_pool" do the trick?  (and consequently,
you import the USB zpool before you start your backups?

cheers,
James