>>>>> "p" == petro <petro@auctionwatch.com> writes: p> We have a home-brewed perl script called from cron that does a p> snap, rsync's out the data, then releases the snapshot. Interesting, but not quite what I'm trying to do. Essentially I'd like to use snapshots as a sort of quick online backup to guard against users nuking their files. Of course we do backups nightly, but restoring from a snapshot is much quicker than messing with tapes. So, depending on how snapshots actually work and the performance penalty they incur and various other bits, I was thinking of doing a daily or twice-daily snapshot, keeping them around for a few days, then deleting them. But that entails having around 100 snapshots sitting around, and I don't know if there are performance problems with doing that. - J<
