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From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
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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...
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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
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no