Re: Using FreeBSD snapshots during backups

2007-04-18 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:16:46AM -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote: Thanks I'll check into it. I assume there is no way to pass dump options in via the dumptype to get different options for different partitions. Like it's recommended that if you use -L you should use -C which takes a size

Re: Using FreeBSD snapshots during backups

2007-04-17 Thread Benjamin Lewis
Chris Kottaridis wrote: Any amanda users out there know how to get amanda to use the -L option on the FreeBSD machines, but not on the BSD/OS machine, since it can't do snapshots ? The FreeBSD Amanda client port patches client-src/sendbackup-dump.c to pass the -L option to dump if you give it

Using FreeBSD snapshots during backups

2007-04-16 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I am using an amanda 2.5 server on a FreeBSD 6.2 host. I have some FreeBSD 5.3 clients running the amanda 2.4.4 client side version. I also have an old BSD/OS machine running some flavor of amanda client. I noticed that the dumps use the ushf options. But it would seem to me that you'd also want