Re: Dump questions

2010-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:10:01PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/02/2010 14:30, Jerry McAllister wrote: No. In multi-user, files are still changing. The snapshot could possibly be made between parts of a change - between different

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:23:10PM +0800, Aiza wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. ...

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/02/2010 14:30, Jerry McAllister wrote: No. In multi-user, files are still changing. The snapshot could possibly be made between parts of a change - between different writes to the file, so there could be some inconsistency. In practice

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 03:45:51PM +0800, Aiza wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No. The snapshot, quite incorrectly explained, is a saved

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Aiza
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No. The snapshot, quite incorrectly

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/02/2010 12:52, Aiza wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 02:10:29PM +0100, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:52:31 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. ... Is this the limiting factor that forces a user to use (single user mode) for

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-21 Thread Aiza
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:03:58AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:42:50 +0800, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. ... Is this the limiting factor that forces a user to use (single

Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Aiza
1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? So if the running file system is more than 50% full there will not be enough free space available to hold the duplicate image? Can

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a copy. Snapshots only copy blocks as they are modified on the parent

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Alexandr Sushko
3. Can dump be told to only dump a particular directory tree? IE /var/log or /usr/port? No. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Aiza
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a copy. Snapshots only copy blocks as they are

Re: Dump questions

2010-02-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Feb 21), Aiza said: 1. Using the -L flag to create a snapshot of the live running file system. Does this mean that a complete copy of the file system is written to .snap directory? No; that would be a