Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 15:57:19 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *Caution: Threadjack !!!!* Backup strategies Message-ID: <55E21B65.2000404@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20150829221343.f480a3e8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CEAD84AD-341A-4FB9-A3A1-D0D5A550AFFD@lafn.org> <55E047DC.40800@qeng-ho.org> <CAE63ME6mDXpyB7tuRvOr3sDL532fR-BGOD1swY1GoWXXxaAm=w@mail.gmail.com> <55E06B61.7040305@hiwaay.net> <55E07C7F.80102@freebsd.org> <55E0DC7A.6000304@hiwaay.net> <20150829221343.f480a3e8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 08/29/15 15:19, Polytropon wrote:
> Unmounting something is always a question of access.:-)
>
>
>> >One of the machines I am backing up is a RPiB+ running NetBSD 7.0-beta,
>> >serving as the time server for my LAN. It has only 1 large partition for
>> >root, so I get it all in my backup. Could that be unmounted
>> >(temporarily) for a backup ?
> No (except you can make sure_no_ access is being made to it).
> Solution: Put it into read-only mode and hope for the best
> (i.e., that no program tries to write to it). If you can't,
> at least use dump -L so it will work with a snapshot.
Nope, the '-L' flag of dump on NetBSD 7.0 has been repurposed for
labelling the dump :-/ ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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