Re: [SAGE] nas boxes with snapshots

[Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:44:28PM +0000, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Which reminds me: whilst FreeBSD 5.x reminds not-quite-stable-enough for
> solid production use (ugh), there is some really nice stuff in it.  I've
> played a little with the new UFS snapshots, enough to verify that they
> work on a very lightly loaded system, when not kept around for long.
> 
> Has anyone tried these UFS snapshots (mksnap_ffs) in anger yet?  Any
> information about them at all?

I've been using them to dump all filesystems on a Sparc64 system to a
remote backup host. That machiens actually gives me less trouble (read:
none yet) than some of the 4.X machines ... the snapshot support in dump
ensures that the backups aren't having the carpet pulled from under
them.

-T


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