Re: Zfs Guide

Hi,

On Sun, 6 Nov 2022, at 21:30, paul beard wrote:
> As someone who screwed up their root/sole drive not long ago, this ZFS 
> discussion is interesting. The rebuilding process might have been 
> easier or even unnecessary, had I been able to roll back to a snapshot. 
> So even after reading all of this, I have to ask if this is the right 
> call for me. I use Freebsd in a VM, have two disk images already with a 
> job to mirror them as a backup  (not gmirror, I didn't know about that 
> when i set this all up). Will zfs allow me to run the services I run 
> now with the same ease (booting into the VM automagically) with the 
> added security of snapshots and redundancy? I guess a peruse of the 
> fine manual is in order…? 

You might want to take a look at man 8 bectl if you have a recent 
(13-stable) system or newer, as well as all the newer zfs stuff
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