On Monday 11 June 2012 00:03:59 Daniel Feenberg wrote: > It does occur to me that /etc is not a felicitous place to keep this > information, but given the desirability of dumping filesystems in read > only state, placing the dump dates in the filesystem itself isn't > feasible.
Dumping with the -L option creates a temporary read only snapshot which is used as the source for the backup. This enables you to safely backup a live filesystem, More background on snapshots at <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html> -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ 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"