Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

[Rob Siemborski]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, John Hughes wrote:

> What's your worry with taking a snapshot on a live system?  We
> do 4-5 a day on two systems every day of the week.

I'm probably misremembering something from our testing, since the load
created by running gzip for a few hours is definately more than any brief
load spike while a snapshot was created.

Definately we're much happier with this method than the backing up of a
live ufs filesystem.

-Rob

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