From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 2:17:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FC937B401 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6D643E75 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 02:17:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:13:17 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 18D2cS-0005w7-00; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:04:16 +0000 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Mark , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: restore question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021115091500.010abd98@mail.sage-one.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > I missed this earlier. You say: > > "That is why the only clean way of doing this, would be to make a > disk-image, like Ghost does." > > I'm unaware of any backup that takes longer than a nanosecond where files > will not have changed on a system by the time you are done making an image. > Does Ghost sync the files again at the end of the backup....??? I am not > anti-Ghost, just pro-dump/retore and dd after that and tar after that...... > because I feel I can trust them with my data. Dump is NOT guaranteed to work taking an image of a live filesystem. If you want this behaviour, you're better off creating a filesystem snapshot and using your favourite backup mechanism on that. There are no plans that I'm aware of to move the FS snapshotting code into 4-STABLE. jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Solution: (n) a watered-down version of something neat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message