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Fairly certain that zpool and friend live in /bin or /sbin, so you'd still be pretty hosed if you lost all your system binaries.
by donw 17y ago
Fairly certain that zpool and friend live in /bin or /sbin, so you'd still be pretty hosed if you lost all your system binaries.
- barrkel 17y agoThe choice of what snapshot to mount is part of the boot process, as chosen by grub. Nexenta's apt-clone creates a new snapshot for every system upgrade and adds a new boot entry for rolling back in case it doesn't work.
- viraptor 17y agoWhile true, you can boot from a removable media and restore the snapshot fairly quickly. The original article author seems to have had a problem where he wasn't sure what exactly did the system/boot backup contain.