VERY frustrated with FreeBSD/UFS stability - please help or comment...

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Eric Anderson <anderson at freebsd.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > Speaking in the abstract, what you want to do every day is the
> > following:
> >
> > client1% rsync --archive --delete /vol server:/backup/client1
> > client2% rsync --archive --delete /vol server:/backup/client2
> > server% for vol in /backup/* ; do mksnap_ffs $vol $vol/.snap/`date` ; done
> That's good for small file systems, but if you have a multi-terabyte
> file system, you're not going to be too happy about those results.
> The snapshot will take a *very* long time, on a nearly full file
> system.

I did write "in the abstract".  I am well aware that this will not work
well with FFS.  You left out the part where I recommended using ZFS
instead.

DES
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