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fssnap of / (root) fails under Solaris

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Using fssnap we can quickly take a temporary snapshot of any UFS file system and then use that snapshot for backup operations.

UFS snaphots

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Basically, a snapshot is read-only copy of a file system (for the purpose of backup).