Hi
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
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> PS: In a recent discussion, Mihail RUSU made the suggestion to archive the
> log device, for disaster recovery
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=104186705903040&w=2). Err,
> won't the data part have the changes in the logdev pretty quickly, making
> the logdev backup "obsolete" or at least "inconsistent", so that the only
> real option is to mirror the log device?
I ment to say to backup the external log only after a clean unmount. So
the external log in that case is "empty". The only use is when
you loose your log device thus you can xfs_repair -L with logdev on the
backed up log (so we ignore the log contents anyway, if the system crashed
when you lost your logdevice then you will posibly loose some data there).
I tested this and it worked for me (I tested moving the logdevice on
different partitions/disks).
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