EBS snapshot backups from a FreeBSD zfs file system: zpool freeze?

[Berend de Boer]

>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> writes:

    Jeremy> It sounds to me like the Linux OS images on AWS have
    Jeremy> utilities or the capability to create EBS images that are
    Jeremy> snapshots of the "virtual disks" that make up the AWS
    Jeremy> system, and that you can transfer these to another Linux
    Jeremy> AWS machine and mount the EBS images, and that this is
    Jeremy> being done within Linux itself.

    Jeremy> Correct?

Not really. EBS is just block storage. To your OS (including FreeBSD)
they just appear as disks.

They are just disks for all intends and purposes. EBS has very little
to do with it. Any attached block storage with hardware based backup
will run into the same problem.


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All the best,

Berend de Boer


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