From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Phil Howard <phil-reiserfs@ipal.net>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: copying partition to partition, sector by sector, live
Date: 22 Apr 2002 14:58:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1019501914.24720.89.camel@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020422013955.GB8407@vega.ipal.net>
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 21:39, Phil Howard wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:07:33AM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote:
>
> | Ummm, LVM snapshots? (man lvcreate).
>
> No. Nothing to do with LVM.
>
Doing it safely will require something like lvm or evms snapshots. You
could do the sector by sector copy and then run reiserfsck
--rebuild-tree. The latest versions of reiserfsprogs are faster, the
speed relative to a search for updated files will depend on your data
set.
More importantly you just don't get a consistent copy, regardless of the
FS you choose. I wouldn't consider a sector by sector copy on a mounted
FS a valid backup of any type of filesystem, especially not a tree based
one.
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-22 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-21 18:16 copying partition to partition, sector by sector, live Phil Howard
2002-04-22 1:07 ` Matthew Toseland
2002-04-22 1:39 ` Phil Howard
2002-04-22 17:58 ` Jonathan Briggs
2002-04-22 18:58 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2002-04-22 23:28 ` Phil Howard
2002-04-23 0:40 ` The Amazing Dragon
2002-04-22 22:47 ` Matthew Toseland
2002-04-22 23:24 ` Phil Howard
2002-04-22 23:39 ` Chris Mason
2002-04-23 0:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-04-23 22:17 ` Matthew Toseland
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