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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:00:08 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ddb and dump devices
Message-ID:  <7d6fde3d1002260300v36c420d4r79a18efe02c0d8ab@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think a better idea would be to dump over the network to another
> server. =A0We do that at $(WORK) for diskless machines and it's quite
> effective. =A0Currently what we have is very rough and only implemented
> on 6.1, but if I get some time this weekend I'll try to clean it up
> and provide a patch against HEAD.

Network dumping is definitely desired and should perhaps be the
primary focus, but there are situations I could see where networking
isn't possible for infrastructure or policy reasons.

How does your group configure the system to dump to network shares (I
presume nfs)?

Thanks!
-Garrett



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