Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:19:18 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: A couple of 5.3 questions Message-ID: <20041113110938.Q85262@zoraida.natserv.net>
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Plan to soon move to 5.3 through a backup, fresh install proces.. One of the main reasons I am moving is for the snapshot capability. Reading the man for MKSNAP_FFS(8) I see mksnap_ffs mountpoint snapshot_name Question: Does mountpoint has to be a filesystem or can it be a directory? For example if I have: / /usr /var Can I make a snapshot of /usr/home? Or I can only do /usr? Then I went on to look at how to mount snapshopts, and although found the info, got a little more confused. The mount command has in the man page: snapshot This option allows a snapshot of the specified file system to be taken. So is mount or mksnap_ffs that makes the snapshot? The only reason I am trying to get this info is to know if to make a separate filesystem for files I would like to snapshot.
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