On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 00:08, Ivan Rayner wrote:
> I'm sure the man page states that it should be run on a mounted
> filesystem.
>
> You seem to be of the opinion that you can't create a backup of a live
> filesystem. My guess is that you assume a backup is a strict snapshot in
> time of the filesystem -- it isn't.
>
> If a file is removed or created while a xfsdump is running, then it may or
> may not be included in the dump. This is OK, because in tomorrow night's
> incremental backup the file will then be included or removed as
> appropriate. If you have a 24hr schedule then you should assume that the
It is not always OK. If the files are independent then it is OK.
If they are not you have big troubles.
Eg. if you have an IMAP server and you have:
1 File containing messages index
2-9999999 files containing messages
You dump the index, next the user deletes some messages, next you dump
the messages... After restoring the backup you have problem.
Regards,
Olaf
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