zfs discuss - Aug 2007 - zfs send/recv partial filesystem?

Hi,

I want to send peices of a zfs filesystem to another system. Can zfs 
send peices of a snapshot? Say I only want to send over /app at today and 
not include /app/conf data while /app/conf is still apart of the 
/app at today snapshot? I say app/conf as an example, it could be 
webserver/http-webservername/config or a piece of a repository.

I know once the receive -F option is added I''ll be able to blow away 
data that''s at the receiving host side, which isn''t always
what I want.

Yes, I know I can use rsync for this.

Thanks in advance,
~~sa

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Shannon A. Fiume
System Administrator, Infrastructure and Lab Management, Java Tools

Shannon Fiume wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to send peices of a zfs filesystem to another system. Can zfs 
> send peices of a snapshot? Say I only want to send over /app at today and 
> not include /app/conf data while /app/conf is still apart of the 
> /app at today snapshot? I say app/conf as an example, it could be 
> webserver/http-webservername/config or a piece of a repository.
Nope.  You''ll have to make /app/conf a different filesystem to
accomplish
your goal with zfs send|recv.

--matt