From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 2 22:21:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F310C16A41F for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:21:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vahric@doruk.net.tr) Received: from mailhub.doruk.net.tr (mailhub.doruk.net.tr [212.58.5.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9782543D46 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 22:21:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vahric@doruk.net.tr) Received: from mail.doruk.net.tr ([212.58.5.6] helo=doruk.net.tr) by mailhub.doruk.net.tr with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1EMCDE-0006H0-Nr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:21:40 +0300 Received: from [212.58.13.17] (account vahric HELO VAHOXP) by doruk.net.tr (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.5) with ESMTP id 411799344 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:21:45 +0300 From: "Vahric MUHTARYAN" To: Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 01:26:43 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 Thread-Index: AcXHoFzrCQE1TkaMRBOVD26+55Dlmw== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: About SnapShot 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: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 22:21:36 -0000 Hi Everybody , Today I try to learn snapshot with FreeBSD 5.4 , perfect it's working very fest . I wonder something if somebody have knowledge about snapshot or have a documentation about it I will be happy. First I don't understand How system can take snapshot quickly I tried it on new installed freebsd 5.4 and when I gave a command on console snapshot file created in a second which 256MB , I wonder How fast will be on bigger partitions. Anybody know How snapshot tecnology is working ? Because it's creating an single file and it's 256 mb , it's not possible to copy /var folder to another folder in a second ... Second Why I can't create snapshot file on different directory , I tried to linking but it didn't work ! And anyway Does it possible to back from snapshot file to original portion ... I mean snapshot is creating only one file When I want to backI have to mount it to system and copy back files Im asking without copying something and mouting snapshot file can I make a restore ? Thanks Everybody Regards Vahric