Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 08:03:50 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> 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: <4652EA36.1010804@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <86646lxb9m.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <475187.33232.qm@web63006.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <86r6p9xf2c.fsf@dwp.des.no> <4652E7F9.10005@freebsd.org> <86646lxb9m.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On 05/22/07 08:01, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> writes: >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <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` ; done >> 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 True.. I left out the ZFS part, because your mksnap_ffs command is what I was referring to, and it only applies to FFS, so the ZFS comment wasn't relevant to my particular comment. Eric
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