Re: snapshot backup

From: Steve Losen (scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 16:18:19 EDT

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    No matter what, you are backing up a snapshot. NDMP uses the native
    netapp dump utility. If you dump the live filesystem, netapp dump creates
    a snapshot and dumps that. If you want to avoid this ad hoc snapshot,
    then just back up a snapshot such as /vol/vol0/.snapshot/nightly.0

    If you are backing up over NFS or CIFS, then you can back up the live
    filesystem. But dumping a snapshot is much better because it doesn't
    change during the dump.

    Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 804-924-0640

    University of Virginia ITC Unix Support



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