From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 11:09:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622CA37B401 for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 11:09:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A5043FBF for ; Mon, 12 May 2003 11:09:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h4CI90913127; Mon, 12 May 2003 15:09:02 -0300 Message-ID: <3EBFE33C.4020502@tcoip.com.br> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:09:00 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per von Zweigbergk References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Docs for filesystem snapshots on FreeBSD 5.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 18:09:25 -0000 Per von Zweigbergk wrote: > The new filesystem snapshot functionality in FreeBSD 5.0 seems very > interesting to make it possible to consistently back up filesystems. > However, I have found very little information about this when googling > for this information. > > The best I could come up with: dumping an active filesystem is best done > with "dump -L", where -L activates snapshotting. > > However, I have found no information about any utility similar to > Solaris' fssnap on FreeBSD. > > Any pointers? [0] dcs@dcs:/opt/home/dcs$ apropos snapshot geom_stats_open(3), geom_stats_close(3), geom_stats_resync(3), geom_stats_snapshot_get(3), geom_stats_snapshot_f ree(3), geom_stats_snapshot_timestamp(3), geom_stats_snapshot_reset(3), geom_stats_snapshot_next(3) - userland A PI library for kernel GEOM subsystem mksnap_ffs(8) - take a filesystem snapshot SDL_GetKeyState(3), SDL_GetKeyState-(3) - Get a snapshot of the current keyboard state And the winner is... mksnap_ffs(8). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. -- H. H. Munroe