Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-18 Thread Bernard Dugas
Mel wrote: I'm still wondering if you're not better off with ZFS, but this does seem like a useful app in it's own right. ZFS is not handling replication on remote servers very well currently, and they don't seem to care about this from the reactions i had on some forums. And i would not use

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:18:19 Bernard Dugas wrote: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Just use dump(8)? And what snapshots do you mean? As in mksnap_ffs? Cause that's described in /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c:

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-17 Thread Bernard Dugas
Mel wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:18:19 Bernard Dugas wrote: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Just use dump(8)? Yes in first step, may be. But for fast replication of changes ? Imagine i have a 1TB drive with 1

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-17 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 11:37:04 Bernard Dugas wrote: Mel wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 15:18:19 Bernard Dugas wrote: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. snip And what snapshots do you mean? As in mksnap_ffs?

Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? Thanks a lot, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-? An easier way would be

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-?

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bernard Dugas bern...@dugas-family.org writes: I want to extract the list of files changed between 2 snapshots, to be able to do efficient backups. Any idea where to find a document about snapshots internal structure ? Or if you know any port that already do this :-?