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Date:      Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:59:21 +0100
From:      Csaba Henk <csaba-ml@creo.hu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>
Subject:   Re: backup strategies
Message-ID:  <20051031175921.GS16050@beastie.creo.hu>
In-Reply-To: <43664702.9040209@computer.org>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> The online manual mentions it in 16.13.  Wouldn't hurt for it to be in 
> the man page as well.

Oh, yeah, thanks.

This makes things clear. I missed this somehow.

> AFAIK FreeBSD 5.0+. Other *BSD as well, i believe... but someone else 
> would have to answer that.
> 
> >(AFAIK, softupdates is supported also in other members of the BSD
> >family, yet the NetBSD dump manpage didn't have such a -L flag...)

OK, as I understand now, softupdates might be available for other BSD-s,
but snapshotting is not a "free bonus" which comes with softupdates, but
a new innovation based on that... and is a true FBSD innovation. So I'd
guess it's still a unique thing.

-- 
Csaba Henk

My sense of humour is often too subtle to cope with getting smileyd.
Please don't take it personal.



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