Snapshots fail on large FFS2 volumes regulary -- how to backup /usr/home?!

Thu May 19 17:18:02 UTC 2011

Hello, Freebsd-fs.
You wrote 19 мая 2011 г., 21:15:59:

>   I have /usr/home partition on my new server which is 400GiB (only
> 17GiB is used). It is UFS2, SoftUpdates are enabled.
>   I want to backup it on live system, but 4 times out of 5 I got
> (after 10-12 minutes of wait! Oh my, 10 minutes to create snapshot!):
  And server is almost unusable for these 10 minutes.

>   I've never encounter such problem on previous server, which has
>  about 80GiB (with 20GiB used).
  It takes about 30 seconds on this FS...

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>