Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:49:59 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backups using rsync Message-ID: <87vc902noo.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20130305203022.Horde.dksye196oEwlUQ41iOTg2Q9@d2ux.org> (Matthias Petermann's message of "Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:22 %2B0100") References: <6126.1362396930@server1.tristatelogic.com> <20130305160021.GA9376@saturn> <20130305203022.Horde.dksye196oEwlUQ41iOTg2Q9@d2ux.org>
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On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:22 +0100, Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.org> wrote: > Hello, > Zitat von Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>: > >> If this is a UFS2 filesystem, it may be a good idea to snapshot the >> filesystem, and then rsync-backup the snapshot instead. > > Last time I tried UFS2 snapshots I found out two serious limitations. > The first is it doesn't work when UFS Journaling is used. The second is > that taking a snapshop on a large filesystem can cause parts of the > system to freeze for many minutes up to hours when accessing files > part of the snapshot, depending on the size of the filesystem. > That's why I could not use it on my server with > 1TB UFS2. > > Did this improve in the last year? (I guess my experience is from the > time around 9.0 release). Hi Matthias, Unfortunately I don't know if snapshots for such large filesystems are faster now. I've only used UFS2 snapshots in about 10x times smaller filesystems here.home | help
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