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

[Andriy Gapon]

on 20/05/2011 21:19 Lev Serebryakov said the following:
> Hello, Andriy.
> You wrote 20 мая 2011 г., 20:54:11:
> 
>>> You wrote 20 мая 2011 г., 17:09:34:
>>>> Take a look at e.g. archivers/star.
>>>   I'll take a look. If it could skip some directories, marked with
>>> special file (like gtar could), it could be a solution.
>> I think that it understands FreeBSD flags and supports nodump flag.
>   I don't need star for FSes fwith "nodump" flag. star from FFS2
> without snapshot is not very good solution in any case, IMHO.
> 
>   So, I need any-tar or any other solution with non-FS-specific "nodump"
>  indication for ZFS OR working snapshots on FFS.

$ chflags nodump work
$ ls -ldo  work
drwxr-xr-x  2 avg  staff  nodump 4 18 May  2008 work
$ df -T .
Filesystem             Type 1K-blocks    Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
pond/usr/home/avg/tmp  zfs  114487866 7629783 106858083     7%    /usr/home/avg/tmp

Does this look good enough for you?

-- 
Andriy Gapon