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How to access a ZFS zvol SNAPSHOT block device?
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 box running ZFS. I'm using the zfs-auto-snapshot script to create regular snapshots. Included in my ZFS setup is a ZVOL block device. I want to access (read-only) a ...
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Is there a ZFS-aware diff?
I often make snapshots of a ZFS volume (containing AOSP) make some changes (often extracting ZIP files over then top, or running scripts) and then run diff to see what has changed.
This is really ...
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How much data is transferred in case of zfs send with incremental snapshots?
My scenario is two servers in a hot-standby setup using ZFS to host VMs and using ZFS incremental snapshots for replication of changes to the VMs from one server to the other using something like zrep ...
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How do I set up a bootable incremental ZFS-on-root backup on a seperate drive?
I installed antergos Linux with ZFS-on-root. The system is up and running and I’m glad because that alone is a success for me. Now apparently ZFS is mainly for NAS, RAID, Server configs etc. (and I ...
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Does ZFS support something like "nodatacow" of BTRFS?
This is a follow up to a former question about BTRFS and in the end I want to have a file system supporting at least the manual creation of snapshots for backup and test purposes. The data I'm hosting ...
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How to rollback a specific directory in ZFS snapshot?
Is it possible to rollback to a certain directory within a snapshot? For example, given the snapshot tank/home@snapshot_week_01 can I rollback to something like tank/home/louis@snapshot_week_01 ...
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How to make a redundant desktop system with daily snapshots? (Is btrfs ready for use?)
I want to configure a desktop system in which the home filesystem would be redundant (e.g. RAID-1), and would have weekly snapshots taken. I've already done this with ZFS, the snapshot system is ...
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