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Originally Posted by vermaden
@Broodjegehaktmetmayo
Welcome mate.
About Your backup ...
Use dump/restore if You will restore to UFS pratitions, if you want to transition to ZFS, then stop all services and run tar(1) on whole / there is no need to run it on separate partitions.
Whichever sollution You will chose remember to stop all unneeded services during backup, including syslogd/moused/cron/...
If I would be You, I would backup all needed configuration files (ls -ltr or find and then sort by modify date can be helpful in searching for them).
The do a clean install on ZFS, restore configuration, add needed packages and so.
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Thanks Vermaden
As to your 'if I were you': yes, that seems sensible, but I am too scared to trie it (
). Getting this desktop where it is right now has taken a lot of trial and error and frustration, and starting from scratch on is something I would do if I had a one month holiday.
So I was thinking, as I have read how great ZFS is, IF I could simple use restore to restore to a ZFS file system, thereby having all the necessary ports, packages, configuration, tweaks etc still in place (the massive previous work to get to this desktop in the first place) then I could try it.
I see you say this is possible, yet you also say 'use the other method'. I think I will postpone it until I have more guts
