Re: snapshots on large filesystems

2005-11-04 Thread Nathan Vidican
Not enough info to be entirely informative in my reply, but I'd look to rsync or something similar... copy data/snapshot to another machine. We're running a similar setup here using 250GB S-ATA RAID Edition drives and 3Ware Escalade 9000-series controllers, a second machine simply rsync's the da

snapshots on large filesystems

2005-11-04 Thread user
Hello, Considering a PC server running FreeBSD with 4 400 GB hard drives attached to a hardware raid controller doing raid-5. So this will present itself to the OS as a 1.2TB filesystem. Any comments on taking one or multiple snapshots of a filesystem of this size ? Given current disk capaciti