From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 21:46:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735F216A4DE for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C98513C4B9 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [10.150.107.67] ([10.150.107.67]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l2LLqoaJ056569; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:52:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <4601A7CA.9090102@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:46:50 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Horne References: <42991.167.246.36.14.1174490156.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <4601501C.3060605@gmail.com> <10072.167.246.36.14.1174492472.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> <20070321121031.d95cadf6.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <46015BFD.4060806@scls.lib.wi.us> <20070321122852.8eaa2663.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <4601626B.1070702@scls.lib.wi.us> <49413.167.246.36.14.1174510722.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <49413.167.246.36.14.1174510722.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: started playing with jails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:46:58 -0000 Jonathan Horne wrote: > what is the best method for backup? just back up the whole thing as if it were > "files" on my host? Files in a jail are in fact just files on the host, so you could certainly do that. But as in many things (and especially when talking about backups), "best" is framed by local conditions, practices and requirements. There's nothing much special about backing up jail files though, so do what you normally do. There are by default some constraints on jailed processes using devices. This may or may not affect trying to run backup processes from inside the jail. Backups running in the host environment have no such constraints. Personally, I like to configure all jails on a standalone /jails partition so that I can easily take a snapshot from the host and run a backup against that. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348