Re: simple question regarding moving zfs filesystems

On 5/27/2021 12:03, tech-lists wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:00:32PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>
>> I think you can use "zfs send -R" to achieve what you want:
>
> hm, i'm doing something wrong
>
> zfs snapshot -r data@total3
> [this works, returns to # prompt]
>
> zfs send -R -n -v data@total3 | zfs receive new [here i want a dry-run]
>
> I get this error: cannot receive: invalid stream (bad magic number)
>
"-n" means "dry run, don't actually do it", so you sent nothing and thus 
receive got nothing.

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