Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:06:05AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:36:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-04-02T07:28:33Z, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the current SysAdmin magazine (April, 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pgs 43-47), there

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:08:01AM +0200, Christopher Odenbach wrote: You mean smaller than my 400MHz pc running the latest Solaris version? :) Ouch. Say, smaller than an E450. :) Hey - we use snapshots on our Ultra 1 servers with about 142 MHz, running Solaris 8, works like a

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-04-03T16:24:07Z, Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was investigating how to incorporate the feature more solid it into the program. What I'd ideally like are settings for programs to be executed pre- and post-dump for each filesystem. Bonus points if the command is customizable

RE: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-03 Thread Ron Bauman
LaBadie; Amanda Users Subject: Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots At 2003-04-03T16:24:07Z, Paul Bijnens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was investigating how to incorporate the feature more solid it into the program. What I'd ideally like are settings for programs to be executed pre

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:17:39PM -0500, Ron Bauman wrote: I needed to lock our ClearCase databases while dumping, so I wrap gtar with a shell script. I use this script to configure amanda: #!/bin/sh # [[ snipped ]] It's a bit quirky in that the script has to be there before

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-03 Thread Christopher Odenbach
Hi, Hey - we use snapshots on our Ultra 1 servers with about 142 MHz, running Solaris 8, works like a charm! :-) Do you use the snapshots for amanda backups? If so, how similar is your procedure to what J. Briggs describes? I don't have access to the SysAdmin magazine, so I could not

magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
In the current SysAdmin magazine (April, 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pgs 43-47), there is an article by Julian Briggs on using a Solaris feature of file system snapshots with amanda backups. File system snapshots are a temporary, static view of a file system. They allow backups to proceed on the

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-04-02T07:28:33Z, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the current SysAdmin magazine (April, 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pgs 43-47), there is an article by Julian Briggs on using a Solaris feature of file system snapshots with amanda backups. Very nice; thanks for the pointer. I'd also

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:36:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-04-02T07:28:33Z, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the current SysAdmin magazine (April, 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pgs 43-47), there is an article by Julian Briggs on using a Solaris feature of file system snapshots

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-04-02T17:07:44Z, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You mean smaller than my 400MHz pc running the latest Solaris version? :) Ouch. Say, smaller than an E450. :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Paul Bijnens
Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:36:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-04-02T07:28:33Z, Jon LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the current SysAdmin magazine (April, 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pgs 43-47), there is an article by Julian Briggs on using a Solaris feature of file

Re: magazine article, Solaris file system snapshots

2003-04-02 Thread Christopher Odenbach
You mean smaller than my 400MHz pc running the latest Solaris version? :) Ouch. Say, smaller than an E450. :) Hey - we use snapshots on our Ultra 1 servers with about 142 MHz, running Solaris 8, works like a charm! :-) -- ==

Solaris file system snapshots

2001-10-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
Has anyone attempted to perform amanda backups on Solaris 8 systems by first taking a static snapshot (new Sol8 feature) of the file system? I can see conceptually how it would be done. But as the snapshots have a different device name and are mounted on a different directory I am concerned

Re: Solaris file system snapshots

2001-10-12 Thread Ronan KERYELL
Jon Has anyone attempted to perform amanda backups on Solaris 8 Jon systems by first taking a static snapshot (new Sol8 feature) of Jon the file system? Jon I can see conceptually how it would be done. But as the Jon snapshots have a different device name and are mounted on