I use SAN, not NAS. :) Because some bugdet issue, I just have a basic SAN environment. For multipathing, I use geom_fox to complete. For snapshot, I want to use mksnap_ffs.
But I don't have any experience of using mksnap_ffs to backup pgsql. Does anyone give me some advice? 2007/8/2, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Maybe. I'm confused by your question, but: > * If the data directory is on an FFS2 volume on a FreeBSD machine, you > can use mksnap_ffs to back it up, and that approach is actually > recommended for PITR-type backups. > * If the data is mounted via NFS or something similar and the filesystem > is not FFS2, then snapshots are not available on FreeBSD. > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/
