EBS snapshot backups from a FreeBSD zfs file system: zpool freeze?

[Berend de Boer]

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> writes:

    Kevin> The other option is to not freeze the filesystem before
    Kevin> taking the snapshot, but again you risk leaving things in
    Kevin> an inconsistent state, and/or the last few writes you think
    Kevin> you made didn't actually get committed to disk yet. For
    Kevin> automated systems that create then clone filesystems for
    Kevin> new VMs, this can be a big problem. At best, you're going
    Kevin> to get a warning that the filesystem wasn't cleanly
    Kevin> unmounted.

But I have a couple of disks, and the EBS snapshots are taking
slightly one after another with a few ms between, so I don't think ZFS
will cover from this.

But indeed, you have explained my question very well, thanks!!

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All the best,

Berend de Boer


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