Re: Taking a snapshot of a UFS filesystem

2003-12-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 03:48:49PM +0800, Paul Hamilton wrote:

> OK, I will remod my question, is there any talk of having the snapshot
> feature being retro fitted to 4.x stable?  (or is there some other util/port
> out there that does this?)

It's unlikely the extensive changes will be back-ported to 4.x.

Kris


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Taking a snapshot of a UFS filesystem

2003-12-28 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi All,

In the December 2003, Sys Admin magazine (www.sysadminmag.com), there was an
article (pg 17), about doing Oracle DB Backups using UFS Snapshots.  This
was implemented using a facility built into Solaris.

I have read about other snapshot products for MS Windows NTFS etc.

Is there a way to do snapshot backups using FreeBSD's UFS?

Hmm, after writing the above, I thought I should at least google for
'freebsd snapshot backup'.  Well, low and behold, there it is in 5.0+  Cool!

OK, I will remod my question, is there any talk of having the snapshot
feature being retro fitted to 4.x stable?  (or is there some other util/port
out there that does this?)

Cheers,

Paul

PS. FreeBSD never ceases to amaze me ;-)


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