Restoring received properties on a received filesystem.

Johannes Totz johannes at jo-t.de
Sun Dec 25 19:50:13 UTC 2011


On 25/12/2011 13:02, claudiu vasadi wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Johannes Totz<johannes at jo-t.de>  wrote:
>
> Check out zfs receive -u, it doesn't mount the receiving filesystem. zpool
>> import -N doesn't mount your importing backup-pool.
>>
>>
> True, it doesn't, but upon reboot, since the received datasets keep their
> properties, they will be mounted (and this has the risk of potentially
> overwriting an exiting mountpoint).

Good point! Haven't thought about reboot, I always export my backup pool 
when I'm done with send-receive.
Could be worked around, I guess, by disabling cache file entry and 
manually importing it from some random script...



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