Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

[Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>]

Rasmus Andersen wrote:
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> FreeBSD's softupdates should make filesystem state always consistent,
> metadatawise. Or so I think I remember, its been a while. That might
> aleviate some of the problems noted on the dump page I referenced.
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Freebsd's dump -L (live option) uses ufs2 snapshot capability to ensure 
consistency, so its dump is reasonably smart. (FWIW / on Freebsd usually 
does not have softupdates specified, so usually won't help here). So 
yeah, it looks like some care is needed with plain old 'dump' on Linux - 
which is a bit of a pest!
> I use rdiff-backup for my backups but then again I have low requirements
> wrt. consistency outside file-level. I have considered LVM snapshots
> since I use LVM already but havent bothered so far.
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Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this 
sort of stuff.



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