Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: restore question Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211161302290.22224-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021115091500.010abd98@mail.sage-one.net>
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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
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