Re: Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-24 Thread Paul Bradley
Thanks for the replies, I understand that ZFS is unlikely to be ported to BSD any time soon. My requirements may seem a little puzzling, but I am also restricting the vulnerability of the clients by doing the second level of encryption/decryption (the one that lets the clients see the

Re: Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-22 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:41:55PM +0100, Paul Bradley wrote: I am setting up an encrypted fileserver with off-site backup, for one reason and another which I won't go into here for the sake of brevity, I need to block-level snapshot partitions, file-level snapshots as I believe are provided

Re: Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-22 Thread Graham Allan
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:32:24PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: I am very keen to run OBSD on this, but if it's absolutely impractical to do so I'd also welcome suggestions of other ways to do this in FreeBSD. I don't know anything about FreeBSD's (lack of?) support for snapshots.

Block level snapshots - can I do them in OBSD?

2009-05-21 Thread Paul Bradley
I am setting up an encrypted fileserver with off-site backup, for one reason and another which I won't go into here for the sake of brevity, I need to block-level snapshot partitions, file-level snapshots as I believe are provided in UFS won't do since the partitions will contain large monolithic