Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:46:22 +0200 | From | Jesper Juhl <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10 and dd |
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Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> I do my backup using dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=1024k.
ehh, isn't that kind of dangerous???
What if files move around on disk while dd is running? imagine that dd is in the process of copying blocks belonging to a big file "foo", and now in the middle of this something causes "foo" (or just parts of "foo") to move to a different location - you now have a seriously screwed copy of "foo" on the new disk...
I'd expect that all sorts of strange corruption of the copy could happen that way. I could be wrong, and maybe someone who knows more about how the filesystems work can tell if I am, but I know for sure that I would never dare to do backups that way.
Best regards, Jesper Juhl juhl@eisenstein.dk
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