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Operating Systems Solaris snapshots syntax
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Old 03-04-2009
Java snapshots syntax
Hi guys,

i am intrested to learn about snapshots. I was a bit confused about snapshot i know using fssnap -F ufs -o bs (i dont understand the exact what to give the path after this ) if any one know the proper syntax..pls help me.
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Old 03-04-2009
Code:
# fssnap -F ufs -o bs=/file-system/backing-store-file /file-system

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Old 03-05-2009
Beware that the backing store file must be on a different file system so that would be:
Code:
# fssnap -F ufs -o bs=/file-system-with-free-space/backing-store-file /file-system-to-snapshot

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