[Box Backup] Two backup-servers

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Stuart,

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:

> 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.

But is not guaranteed to be consistent when the snapshot is taken. Only 
xfs with xfs_freeze is so guaranteed, to my knowledge.

Cheers, Chris.
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