[Box Backup] Two backup-servers

Stuart D. Gathman boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:16:46 -0400


Markus Liljergren wrote:
> The idea of using a filesystem which support snapshots seems very 
> interesting, though I don't know if that is possible without making 
> your own port of for example ZFS since I'm running OpenBSD 4.2. Do you 
> know if this functionality could be achieved using something which 
> comes with OpenBSD core or any packages?
When using LVM on Linux, any journaled filesystem (e.g. ext3, xfs, jfs, 
reiserfs, etc) can be used with the LVM snapshot mechanism.