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On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:08:33AM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Has anyone worked up a system that automatically snapshots volumes at
> regular intervals and then expires the snapshots as necessary?  If
> not, I may take a stab at it.

    We have a home-brewed perl script called from cron that does a snap,
    rsync's out the data, then releases the snapshot. 

    Is that what you're talking about? 

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