From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I give up
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:11:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <461A9DF5.1050901@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17946.40257.794493.294518@smtp.charter.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-09 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-09 14:07 I give up Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 14:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 15:37 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 16:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-09 17:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-09 18:36 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 19:38 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 21:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-09 22:22 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-10 1:27 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10 1:40 ` Dave Dillow
2007-04-10 2:01 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-10 7:12 ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-10 7:51 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 8:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 16:08 ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-10 17:29 ` David Lang
2007-04-10 16:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 3:54 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 15:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-11 15:51 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-11 19:29 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 20:27 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-11 21:16 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 21:26 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-11 19:27 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 7:53 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 12:24 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-10 20:45 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 19:05 ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-11 4:01 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 14:46 ` Phillip Susi
2007-04-11 15:07 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-11 15:12 ` John Anthony Kazos Jr.
2007-04-11 16:43 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-04-11 17:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-10 3:47 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 3:41 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 17:11 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-09 19:49 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-09 20:08 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-09 20:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-04-09 20:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-04-09 20:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-09 20:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-09 20:33 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-09 20:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 3:34 ` Gene Heskett
2007-04-10 3:38 ` John Stoffel
2007-04-10 6:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-10 6:59 ` CaT
2007-04-10 17:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-11 3:57 ` Gene Heskett
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