Re: Restoring damaged incremental XFS dump?

David Chinner
2008-02-12T12:24:52Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:17:15PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:03:57 +1100, "Timothy Shimmin"
> <tes@sgi.com> said:
> > I'm not sure what you mean by "true snapshots". I wouldn't really
> > call it snapshots as in what you could get if you froze the
> > filesystem etc..
>
> Oh, it does not freeze the filesystem - what a pity. I recall someone
> telling me that it does. Seems like that was bad information or my
> memory is failing on me.

Use dm-snap to create a snapshot and do the backup from that.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group