I use SAN, not NAS. :)
Because some bugdet issue, I just have a basic SAN environment.
For multipathing, I use geom_fox to complete.
For snapshot, I want to use mksnap_ffs.
But I don't have any experience of using mksnap_ffs to backup pgsql.
Does anyone give me some advice?
2007/8/2, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>:
>
> Maybe. I'm confused by your question, but:
> * If the data directory is on an FFS2 volume on a FreeBSD machine, you
> can use mksnap_ffs to back it up, and that approach is actually
> recommended for PITR-type backups.
> * If the data is mounted via NFS or something similar and the filesystem
> is not FFS2, then snapshots are not available on FreeBSD.
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
>
