[ryanmjacobs]

Ah. Yeah, that's what I have been doing. It took about an hour to send 100G initial ZFS seed over the network between different datacenters. Then I suspended all of the VMs and sent the remaining incremental.

The --raw/-w flag does send the compressed data.

It always feels brittle to me because of how manual the process is. Maybe it's time to create some decent scripts with safe logic and checks...

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Scripting would be nice, but unless you're deleting things it feels extremely safe to me, since you're working on (and retain) snapshots the whole way; if anything ever does go wrong just roll back:)