You (Angus Jordan) wrote: > Andy, > > I would be interested in seeing the script you are using to do the actual > snapshot. Do you do a snap shot of all of your filesystems in order to get a > globally static backup? Or just of the database partition?
I can mail it to you... but it is nothing special, only a little shell scripting. It is based on this article: http://wiki.bsdforen.de/index.php/FreeBSD_-_Backup Normal unix dump tool has a new switch (-L) to make use of snapshots. I make differential dumps (level 0 to level 2) each day of every partition, to have a full backup. I tested a disaster recovery and it works great, only using restore command utility. You can use this features with backup applications like amanda. It is possible to only backup the database location. You can use mount (see man mount) to take a snapshot, then mount it read only and e.g. use tar/bzip2 to backup the database. bye, Andy -- Andy Hilker -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cryptobank.de -- PGP Key: https://ca.crypta.net
