On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, John Hughes wrote: > What's your worry with taking a snapshot on a live system? We > do 4-5 a day on two systems every day of the week.
I'm probably misremembering something from our testing, since the load created by running gzip for a few hours is definately more than any brief load spike while a snapshot was created. Definately we're much happier with this method than the backing up of a live ufs filesystem. -Rob -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
