Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:01:41 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Gore Jarold <gore_jarold@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: VERY frustrated with FreeBSD/UFS stability - please help or comment... Message-ID: <86646lxb9m.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <4652E7F9.10005@freebsd.org> (Eric Anderson's message of "Tue\, 22 May 2007 07\:54\:17 -0500") References: <475187.33232.qm@web63006.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <86r6p9xf2c.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4652E7F9.10005@freebsd.org>
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Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes: > > Speaking in the abstract, what you want to do every day is the > > following: > > > > client1% rsync --archive --delete /vol server:/backup/client1 > > client2% rsync --archive --delete /vol server:/backup/client2 > > server% for vol in /backup/* ; do mksnap_ffs $vol $vol/.snap/`date` ; d= one > That's good for small file systems, but if you have a multi-terabyte > file system, you're not going to be too happy about those results. > The snapshot will take a *very* long time, on a nearly full file > system. I did write "in the abstract". I am well aware that this will not work well with FFS. You left out the part where I recommended using ZFS instead. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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