freebsd 5.0 and snapshots

[Alan Chen]

I am trying to get snapshots working on FreeBSD 5.0.  I looked in the 
handbook on the web and the file:

/usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot

and executed the command:

mount -u -o snapshot /var/snapshot/snap1 /var

and get the message:

mount: /var/snapshot/snap1 on /var: specified device does not match 
mounted device


I am somewhat new to the BSD OS so any help would be greatly 
appreciated.  Thanks.


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Re: freebsd 5.0 and snapshots

[Axel Gruner]

Hi.

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 18:30:07 -0500
Alan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I am trying to get snapshots working on FreeBSD 5.0.  I looked in the 
 handbook on the web and the file:
 /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot

The Readme tells you:

To create a snapshot of your /var filesystem, run the command:
mount -u -o snapshot /var/snapshot/snap1 /var

So, i  think you can only make a snapshot of a single filesystem. 
So, maybe your /var is not a single filesystem. 
If you want to be sure, type:
#mount
and take a look what kind of filesyste, you have.
It depends on how you installed FreeBSD. Normally you will have:
/
/usr
/tmp
(/var)

So, this _could_ be the problem, but i am not sure.

hth

asg


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