From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 15:38:28 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 15:38:26 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21BD37B402 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:38:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA07343; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:44:59 +0100 Message-ID: <3A53B831.4F97E83B@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:39:29 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a very dumb backup question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com schrieb: > > I have a number of freebsd boxes up that I've been backing up over the wire > using samba shares and nt backup software. In my ignorance as a newbie I > didn't know if sticking a tape drive in the servers and using tar to > perform backups would catch open files. In my somewhat lesser ignorant > state as a familiar freebsd guy, I still don't know so I figured I'd ask. > Will open files (web pages, etc) be backed up to tape using tar? Yes. The problem is, you may capture them while in an inconsistent state. For this reason, databases should be powered down when backup time hits the disc. HTH -CHristoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message