On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:06:05AM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:36:25AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> >
> >>At 2003-04-02T07:28:33Z, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> writes:
> >>
> >>>In the current "SysAdmin" magazine (April, 2003, Vol. 12, No. 4, Pgs
> >>>43-47), there is an article by Julian Briggs on using a Solaris feature 
> >>>of
> >>>"file system snapshots" with amanda backups.
> >>
> >>Very nice; thanks for the pointer.
> >>
> >>I'd also point out that FreeBSD 5.0 and beyond also supports filesystem
> >>snapshots, so this will also be of interest on smaller machines in the 
> >>near
> >>future.
> >
> >You mean smaller than my 400MHz pc running the latest Solaris version?  :))
> 
> On my 333 MHz fileserver with Linux 2.4.18 it even works :-)
> 2 disks 80 GByte with software RAID 1 and lvm snapshots,
> all on a pc that nobody wants on his desk!

Not being a Linux user Paul, are the LVM, RAID, and filesystem snapshots
a standard feature of your system?  How have you incorporated them into
amanda backups?

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