I'm doing a live dump using dump(8) with the -L flag. The dump is not stored locally but on an NFS mount. I understand that dump(8) creates a snapshot and then dumps the snapshot instead of the live file system. My question now is how much space is needed for that snapshot?
Example:
My local filesystem is using 6 GB of 8 GB. The .snap directory is in the same file system. The dump destination is on a remote file system. Am I right that the snapshot uses some kind of internal linking/referencing and need additional space only for the changes that are made to the files system while dump(8) is running? If this is correct, does this mean that I'm OK doing a snapshot of my 6 GB allocated file system when I only have 2 GB free space? As the snapshot itself will not be 6 GB (requiring at least 6 GB free space).
Example:
My local filesystem is using 6 GB of 8 GB. The .snap directory is in the same file system. The dump destination is on a remote file system. Am I right that the snapshot uses some kind of internal linking/referencing and need additional space only for the changes that are made to the files system while dump(8) is running? If this is correct, does this mean that I'm OK doing a snapshot of my 6 GB allocated file system when I only have 2 GB free space? As the snapshot itself will not be 6 GB (requiring at least 6 GB free space).