Storing UFS snapshots externally?

[Kris Kennaway]

Daniel E. Lynn wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> First, let me apologize if this has been asked before. If it has then my 
> search skills must be lacking because I couldn't seem to find it in the 
> lists anywhere.
> 
> I'm wondering if it is feasible to store snapshots for UFS on a separate 
> drive, and if so if there is an advisable way of doing it. The basic 
> idea is that I'd like to be able to mitigate any write overhead of using 
> a lot of snapshots by using a separate disk for them entirely. Here's 
> the proposed setup:

No, the point of snapshots is that they are copy-on-write, so you don't 
copy the data until it changes.  If you want to store them up 
externally, you have to copy the whole thing, and you should use a tool 
like dump, rsync, etc.

Kris