Solaris 8, which is running on some systems I'm backing up,
has a new feature "file system snapshots". It sounds like
one could put a wrapper around amdump something like:
- Create the file system snapshot. If using gnutar, mount it
(readonly) on an available directory
- dump the snapshot device or tar the mount directory with
no worries about changes while backing up nor altered time
stamps on the real fs
- unmount (if necessary) and delete the snapshot
Before I reinvent someones wheel, has anyone tried this?
Any problems I should anticipate, eg. the backed-up file system
or directory is different than the disklist entry? Performance?
jon
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