zfs discuss - Aug 2011 - rpool recover not using zfs send/receive

Is it possible to recover the rpool with only a tar/star archive of the root
filesystem?  I have used the zfs send/receive methods and that work without a
problem.

What I am trying to do is recreate the rpool and underlying zfs filesystems
(rpool/ROOT, rpool/s10_uXXXXXX, rpool/dump, rpool/swap, rpool/export, and
rpool/export/home).  I then mount the pool at a alternate root and restore the
tar archive.  Lastly, I set the zpool bootf option to the correct zfs filesystem
and run the installgrub command.  I have not had any luck so far.
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On 08/ 9/11 07:53 AM, marvin curlee wrote:
> Is it possible to recover the rpool with only a tar/star archive of the
root filesystem?  I have used the zfs send/receive methods and that work without
a problem.
>
> What I am trying to do is recreate the rpool and underlying zfs filesystems
(rpool/ROOT, rpool/s10_uXXXXXX, rpool/dump, rpool/swap, rpool/export, and
rpool/export/home).  I then mount the pool at a alternate root and restore the
tar archive.  Lastly, I set the zpool bootf option to the correct zfs filesystem
and run the installgrub command.  I have not had any luck so far.
You will have to recreate the filesystem hierarchy before restoring the 
data.  It''s always a good idea to archive the output of zfs list -r 
along with the data.

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Ian.

I discovered my problem.  I didn''t notice that the base rpool was
broken out and mounted as /rpool .  After restoring /rpool  the machine booted
without error.

Thanks
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