Re: HOWTO Installing a zvol-based gentoo domU from an

ZFS Snapshots sent by zfs send/recv are data streams, so you can dump to a file:

zfs snapshot pool/dataset@snapshot
zfs send pool/dataset@snapshot > /backups/dataset-snapshot-100107.zfssnap

Then restore later:

cat /backups/dataset-snapshot-100107.zfssnap | zfs recv -d pool

For compression, etc, just send the snapshot datastream to gzip or something 
rather than directly to file.

benr.
 
 
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