On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 02:37:32PM -0500, Paul Mather wrote:
> Not quite: NetBSD also features softupdates and also supports snapshots
> (though I don't know how stable it is, as I've never tried it on my
> NetBSD system). The snapshot interface under NetBSD is different from
That's also good to
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 13:53 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said:
> > The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think
> > has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2
> > filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.
In the last episode (Oct 31), Paul Mather said:
> The other thing to note about FreeBSD snapshots that I don't think
> has been mentioned is that they are only supported on UFS2
> filesystems, meaning they are unavailable under FreeBSD 4.x and
> earlier (or on older filesystems created by those old
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:59:21 +0100, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> > The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be
> in
> > the man page as well.
>
> Oh, yeah, thanks.
>
> This makes things clear. I m
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be in
> the man page as well.
Oh, yeah, thanks.
This makes things clear. I missed this somehow.
> AFAIK FreeBSD 5.0+. Other *BSD as well, i believe... but someone els
Csaba Henk wrote:
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary
for a dump?
[...]
SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem.
This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were
a
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> How do snapshots work and how do they provide the consistency necessary
> for a dump?
[...]
>
> SoftUpdates are required on the filesystem.
This sounds beautiful. I am amazed. I knew of softupdates, but they were
always a shady corn
Csaba Henk wrote:
Thanks for all the tips and answers, I will consider the mentioned
alternatives.
Yet I have one more question...
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
dump(8) will create a snapshot of a live filesystem, dump the snapshot
and then remove the snapshot,
Thanks for all the tips and answers, I will consider the mentioned
alternatives.
Yet I have one more question...
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:22:35PM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> dump(8) will create a snapshot of a live filesystem, dump the snapshot
> and then remove the snapshot, if given the cor
BackupPC
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=backuppc+freebsd
On 10/31/05, albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100
> Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > We plan to set up a backup server.
> -- cut --
> > 1) What parts are to be backed up?
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:49:02 +0100
Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We plan to set up a backup server.
-- cut --
> 1) What parts are to be backed up? If I backup the whole system, the
> backup disk will get full soon.
incremental backups via a script called from cron sounds good,
you might
Martin Hepworth wrote:
Hi
On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi!
We plan to set up a backup server.
While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility
like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a
network mount -- there are many
Hi
On 10/30/05, Csaba Henk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> We plan to set up a backup server.
>
> While the basic backup procedure is clear -- use some archiving utility
> like dump, tar, or cpio and send data to the backup server via ssh or a
> network mount -- there are many details which
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