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Date:      Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:12:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu>
To:        Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net>
Cc:        Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Shaun Amott <shaun@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: continuous backup solution for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0810081108540.16737@zeno.ucsd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <48ECE382.4060907@ispro.net>
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> Thanks again for pointing out snapshots. It is more or less suitable :)

I'll just warn you that if you're planning to use snapshots for your own 
purposes, to first do an extensive stress test on a non-critical machine 
with backed up data.  I've had a lot of problems with snapshots 
occasionally causing deadlocks which hang the machine.  This was under 6.x 
but I had the same problem under many previous versions, so I don't 
necessarily expect that it's fixed.  Also, while it's never happened to 
me, I've heard other people report data corruption.

-- 

Nate Eldredge
neldredge@math.ucsd.edu



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