Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:11:33 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: I give up |
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John Stoffel wrote: > The only sure strategy is to do your dumps in single user mode, with > only one process touching the filesystem during the backup window. > This obviously won't fly in a 24x7 environment, so people take their > calculated chances and run backups with the system live.
That's what snapshots are for.
No need for single user mode or taking chances.
A snapshot gives you a consistent filesystem that you can dump or tar.
Jeff
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