From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 4 20:45:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 5DBA816A41F for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:45:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (fw1.wmptl.com [216.8.159.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BAF443D7C for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 20:45:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.104] (r3140ca.wmptl.net [10.0.0.104]) by wmptl.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jA4KjhBA011072; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:45:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <436BC877.3010504@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 15:45:43 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: user References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.111 () RATWR10_MESSID X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snapshots on large filesystems 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: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:45:47 -0000 Not enough info to be entirely informative in my reply, but I'd look to rsync or something similar... copy data/snapshot to another machine. We're running a similar setup here using 250GB S-ATA RAID Edition drives and 3Ware Escalade 9000-series controllers, a second machine simply rsync's the data from the first nightly... was cheaper to have whole second raid setup and dedicated gigabit ethernet from one machine to the other than was to invest in tape backup devices/media. In addition we do a bi-monthly snapshot on an external USB drive (via tar direct to device... not reccomend cause' it's slow, looking for a faster way myself to do that). With the cost of 200+GB drives, and applicable decent performing raid cards... it's just cheaper in most cases to mirror the data on another machine. - but that's just my two cents ;) -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ user wrote: > Hello, > > Considering a PC server running FreeBSD with 4 400 GB hard drives attached > to a hardware raid controller doing raid-5. > > So this will present itself to the OS as a 1.2TB filesystem. > > Any comments on taking one or multiple snapshots of a filesystem of this > size ? > > Given current disk capacities, I would not exactly consider this 1.2TB > filesystem a "large" one ... any comments on say ... a 6-8 TB filesystem > and making one or more snapshots of it ? > > Assume they are marginally busy - perhaps a 5-10% data turnover per day... > > Thanks. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >