On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 02:42:58PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > >>>>> "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. It's a nice idea, but with the current implementation there's no way I'd want 100 snapshots of the same origin hanging around. - Joe
