[indiana-discuss] Howto backup a rootpool on a Notebook?

[Bernd Schemmer]

Hi

now that I've successfully installed OpenSolaris 06.2009 on my notebook 
I'm thinking about how to do a regular backup. Unfortunatley the 
notebook has only one internal drive so that I can not use a mirror to 
have data redundance.

So my current approach is:

Connect a second disk via USB ; attach the disk to the disk in the 
rootpool ; wait until the resilvering of the root pool is done; and 
detach the USB disk again.

That works but Solaris always resilvers the complete pool so that it 
takes a long time (about 1 - 2 GB per minute; at this time 300 GB are in 
use so that it takes  about 3 to 4 hours).

Is there a better method to create a backup of the root pool?

regards

Bernd

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