freebsd guest on azure

[Frank Leonhardt]

On 23 March 2019 20:54:15 GMT+08:00, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If you're running a freebsd instance on azure,
>
>1. can you back up the instance
>
>-without azure's own tools
>-or with azures own tools (and I imagine it costs extra)
>
>2. or if you can't directly back up the instance, apart from tarring up
>the directories you need to keep and downloading them from the
>instance, 
>what do you do?


First off, if I'm doing this on Azure then someone with deep pockets and a Microsoft fixation is paying. I thought I'd make that clear!

As to your question, what I've done is run a ZFS pool and simply send a snapshot. I can't remember now if I made it boot from ZFS as I prefer to boot from UFS and use ZFS for the rest. But I think I did this with Azure exactly because  I wanted to copy  the disk around. It was early last year so you can't quite me on it.

If you're not sure about sending datasets on ZFS then ask.

Regards, Frank.

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