Original question: > > Does anyone have a handle on how much scratch space > > fssnap requires per GB in use? I'm looking to use this > > to get a backup of one particularly obnoxious file system > > that I can't find an idle window for. > > All responses stated pretty much the same thing: Scratch space is used to hold the original version of blocks that changed while the fssnap was active, so its size is activity related rather than being related to filesystem size or used space. The file is "sparse" so don't get freaked out by the "ls -l" output; use "du -k" to determine space used. Thanks to: Tim Chipman Simon Burr gabriel rosenkoetter Jay Lessert Paul Boven Jeff Horwitz Bill R. Williams -- _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Dec 4 22:33:34 2003
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