From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 15 07:58:33 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 6F68316A403 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) Received: from creto.quietwind.net (creto.quietwind.net [71.39.149.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBBB13C4DD for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) Received: from creto.quietwind.net (localhost.quietwind.net [127.0.0.1]) by creto.quietwind.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l3F80Hv5051064 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:00:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) Received: (from chrisk@localhost) by creto.quietwind.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id l3F80GTq051063 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:00:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from chriskot@quietwind.net) X-Authentication-Warning: creto.quietwind.net: chrisk set sender to chriskot@quietwind.net using -f From: Chris Kottaridis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:00:15 -0600 Message-Id: <1176624015.23205.55.camel@creto.quietwind.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Subject: Amanda and FreeBSD snapshots X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: chriskot@quietwind.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:58:33 -0000 I am using an amanda 2.5 server on a FreeBSD 6.2 host. I have some FreeBSD 5.3 clients running the amanda 2.4.4 client side version. I also have an old BSD/OS machine running some flavor of amanda client. I noticed that the dumps use the "ushf" options. BUt it would seem to me that you'd also want the -L option as mentioned on the FreeBSD machine's dump command man page: -L This option is to notify dump that it is dumping a live file system. To obtain a consistent dump image, dump takes a snapshot of the file system in the .snap directory in the root of the file system being dumped and then does a dump of the snapshot. The snapshot is unlinked as soon as the dump starts, and is thus removed when the dump is complete. This option is ignored for unmounted or read-only file systems. If the .snap directory does not exist in the root of the file system being dumped, a warning will be issued and the dump will revert to the standard behavior. This problem can be corrected by creating a .snap directory in the root of the file system to be dumped; its owner should be ``root'', its group should be ``operator'', and its mode should be ``0770''. This seems like a good option to use when running backups on the FreeBSD clients. Any amanda users out there know how to get amanda to use the -L option on the FreeBSD machines, but not on the BSD/OS machine, suince it can't do snapshots ? Thanks Chris Kottaridis (chriskot@quietwind.net)