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Date:      Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:50:24 -0500
From:      Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To:        user <user@dhp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...
Message-ID:  <20051020155023.GA3290@polands.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0510201101260.31267-100000@shell.dhp.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0510201101260.31267-100000@shell.dhp.com>

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0400, user wrote:
> 
> Finally, are there any snapshot diag tools at all ?  Like, something that
> reports snapshot sizes, percent of disk used for snapshots, and maybe even
> a way for me to actually calculate what the percent change for time period
> X is for a particular filsystem >?
> 
I find sysutils/freebsd-snapshot quite useful, although it doesn't do
everything you're asking for.

Be advised there are issues with snapshots of large filesystems.
 
  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=&severity=&priority=&class=&state=&sort=none&text=snapshot&responsible=&multitext=&originator=&release=

My experience shows that multiple snapshots of large filesystems, >30GB,
causes the system to become unresponsive when a snap is created.  If I
limit the snapshot to 1/per large FS, then often the machine hangs on
attempted reboots.

-- 
Regards,
Doug



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