Re: WAS: Cluster XFS install without CD... MY APOLOGIES

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:13:19AM +1000, ivanr@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Mike Sowka wrote:
> 
> > #1) How is it that xfsdump is able to dump / while it's mounted? And how
> > "industrial-strength" is that?
> 
> xfsdump only works on mounted filesystems.  As you suggest, xfsdump might
> miss files that are created during a dump, or report a warning if a file
> is removed during a dump.  When you ask about "industrial strength", this
> depends on what your goals and expectations are.
> 
> xfsdump is not really designed as a snapshotting tool.  If you want that,
> then just umount your filesystem and do something like 'dd if=/dev/sda
> of=/dev/tape'.

Or use the LVM snapshot feature, with Steve's xfs_freeze(8) tool.

-- 
Nathan