zfs discuss - Sep 2006 - Question: Looking for ways on copying zfs filesys between disks

All,

System (SunFire T2000) migrated to Solaris 10 6/06 and old lucopy 
methods do not work for copying zfs
filesystems between disks for backups. Customer is looking for way to do 
"ufsdump" type method between
c0t0d0s4 and c0t2d0s4 for backup?

I checked the ZFS Admin guide and i saw regarding ZFS backups and 
restore commands like "zfs send" and
"zfs receive". More informations can be found on page 96 of the admin 
guide.  Is this what the customer is
looking for?

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance,
Arlina

NOTE: Please email me directly as i''m not on this alias.

Arlina Goce-Capiral wrote:
> All,
> 
> System (SunFire T2000) migrated to Solaris 10 6/06 and old lucopy 
> methods do not work for copying zfs
> filesystems between disks for backups. Customer is looking for way to do 
> "ufsdump" type method between
> c0t0d0s4 and c0t2d0s4 for backup?
> 
> I checked the ZFS Admin guide and i saw regarding ZFS backups and 
> restore commands like "zfs send" and
> "zfs receive". More informations can be found on page 96 of the
admin
> guide.  Is this what the customer is
> looking for?
Yes, ''zfs send'' and ''zfs receive'' are used
to send filesystem contents
between ZFS storage pools (which may be on different machines).  You can 
find more information on send/recv in the zfs(1m) manpage and in the 
Admin Guide.

--matt

Thanks Matthew for your quick response.
And as always for all of your assistance on my zfs inquiries. I really 
appreciate it.

Have a good weekend.
Arlina-