backup strategies
Csaba Henk
csaba-ml at creo.hu
Mon Oct 31 10:00:46 PST 2005
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:32:02AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> The online manual mentions it in 16.13. Wouldn't hurt for it to be in
> the man page as well.
Oh, yeah, thanks.
This makes things clear. I missed this somehow.
> AFAIK FreeBSD 5.0+. Other *BSD as well, i believe... but someone else
> would have to answer that.
>
> >(AFAIK, softupdates is supported also in other members of the BSD
> >family, yet the NetBSD dump manpage didn't have such a -L flag...)
OK, as I understand now, softupdates might be available for other BSD-s,
but snapshotting is not a "free bonus" which comes with softupdates, but
a new innovation based on that... and is a true FBSD innovation. So I'd
guess it's still a unique thing.
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