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SNAP(8) System Manager's Manual SNAP(8) NAME snap -- FreeBSD UFS2 Snapshot Management Tool SYNOPSIS snap [-p] [-m] [-h] [-c config_file] [filesystem ...] DESCRIPTION You can use the snap utility to periodically create new snapshots while rotating the olds. It can also be used to manually create snapshots. The options are as follows: -p Perform periodic task. It can only be used on the hour, other- wise nothing will happen. If "atHour" is given in the configu- ration file, then snap will only run on the specified hour. When this flag is not given, it is considered as a manual snap- shot creation. -m List manually created snapshots and then exit. -h Show the help message. -c config_file Specify the pathname of an alternative configuration file; The default is /usr/local/etc/snap.conf. The snap utility reads its configuration file when it starts up. If filesystems are given and corresponding entries in the configuration file can be found, snap will only handle these filesystems and ignore their "enable" flag in the configuration file. All snapshot files are created with the local creation time as their filename. In periodic maintaining task, three types of periodic snap- shots, namely, hourly, daily, and weekly, are created and rotated ac- cording to the settings in the configuration file. They are also hard- linked to "nicknames", for example, the last hourly snapshot is hard- linked to hour.0. EXAMPLES The following command creates snapshots manually according to the con- figuration file. snap To perform periodic maintaining, invoke snap in /etc/crontab as 0 * * * * root /path/to/snap -p since periodic maintaining requires to be performed on the hour. To manually create snapshots on filesystem / and /home and /var only: snap / /home /var This command will ignore the "enable" flag in the configuration file. If, say, /var is not found in the configuration file, nothing would happen. We can list manual created snapshots on filesystems / and /home: snap -m / /home or also specify an alternative path for the configuration file: snap -m -c /tmp/gg/snap.conf / /home FILES /usr/local/etc/snap.conf configuration file hour.0 last hourly snapshot daily.0 last daily snapshot week.0 last weekly snapshot SEE ALSO mount(8), crontab(5), mdconfig(8), snapshot(8) AUTHORS This manual page was written by Wu Chin-Hao wchunhao@cs.nctu.edu.tw. FreeBSD ports 15.0 May 6, 2007 SNAP(8)
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