On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 04:18:51PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > However, taking backups slowly makes it harder to ensure you have a > consistent backup, so I recommend you investigate snapshotting the > filesystem (well supported for UFS, trivially easy for ZFS) and then > backup the snapshot as slowly as you like.
I'm not sure snapshots are so well supported for UFS. >From sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot: "As is detailed in the operational information below, snapshots are definitely alpha-test code and are NOT yet ready for production use." -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
