On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:30:22 +0100, Matthias Petermann <matth...@d2ux.org> wrote: > Hello, > Zitat von Giorgos Keramidas <keram...@ceid.upatras.gr>: > >> If this is a UFS2 filesystem, it may be a good idea to snapshot the >> filesystem, and then rsync-backup the snapshot instead. > > Last time I tried UFS2 snapshots I found out two serious limitations. > The first is it doesn't work when UFS Journaling is used. The second is > that taking a snapshop on a large filesystem can cause parts of the > system to freeze for many minutes up to hours when accessing files > part of the snapshot, depending on the size of the filesystem. > That's why I could not use it on my server with > 1TB UFS2. > > Did this improve in the last year? (I guess my experience is from the > time around 9.0 release).
Hi Matthias, Unfortunately I don't know if snapshots for such large filesystems are faster now. I've only used UFS2 snapshots in about 10x times smaller filesystems here. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
