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Thursday, March 28 2024

FreeBSD Snapshot Management

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Snapshots are one of the best features of FreeBSD 5.x, something that has only been available previously as part of Network Appliance's proprietary ONTAP OS. However, snapshot management on FreeBSD is still somewhat lacking, as creating & mounting snapshots is an entirely manual process. Fortunately, someone has now written a front-end designed to make working with snapshots easier. I have installed this on my FreeBSD RELENG_5 test system, and I can say that it works very well, and provides most of the functionality you get from a NetApp Filer.

posted by Loki on Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:25:43 -0500