From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 9 17:51:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C94D837B40C for ; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 17:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [66.189.13.10] (HELO pathiaki.com) by dc-mx08.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 54087107 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 20:51:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3D03F8DD.7E106F1A@pathiaki.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 20:54:53 -0400 From: Paul Pathiakis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Snapshot, Dump and 5.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I just noticed that there is going to be a filesystem snapshot capability in 5.0. Is it possible that the dump facility will be able to make use of this facility? I ask this as my servers are getting to be more and more heavily utilized and I'd love to be able to use dump with a snapshot so as to limit the impact of my backups without having to break mirrors and resync them later. It would be a boon to sysadmins using FreeBSD. Also, it would put FreeBSD one step closer to having storage array hardware features in the OS (like metadata updates with Softupdates) Thank you, Paul Pathiakis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message