Backup solutions?

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 18:14, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 4:40 PM -0500 10/26/05, Les Mikesell wrote:
>  ...
> >I think if you use dump, the right approach would be to use LVM and
> >make a snapshot first, then back up the snapshot.  Does anyone know
> >if this actually works?
> 
> I don't think it will have anything to do with the problem at hand, of data
> in the Linux disk cache.  To use dump safely the filesystem must not be
> mounted.

Yes, but it should only take a few moments of being unmounted to
set up the snapshot vs. perhaps hours to make the backup copy.

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  Les Mikesell
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