Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread David Gilbert
I'm somewhat confused. When I take snapshots, offtimes, they seem to be different sizes. I have a system that has two 120 Gig disks that are vinum (now gvinum) raid1'd. On that I have a root, swap, usr, var and 'u' partitions. All vinum created. As one (of several) backup policies, we take

Re: Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread Diomidis Spinellis
David Gilbert wrote: and progressively delete them such that the oldest snapshot we keep is about 30 days old. Off topic comment: consider using ports/sysutils/fileprune for this task. Diomidis Spinellis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Different snapshot sizes.

2004-11-16 Thread James Raftery
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:22:29PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: But the snapshots are often different sizes. This strikes me as odd, as I understood the format of a snapshot was to be the same as the format of the partition itself --- so they should all have the same size as the physical