, how much consistency your after?<br><br>I like 100% , 100% of the time..<br><br>Sorry to jump down your throat on this issue, but your wrong.<br>I guess it comes from the days I ran (and still do) run servers.<br><br>but what I'm saying is, it works, but it hasn't , so it can't be done...<br><br>to all users on list, don't try this at home, unless you are <br>a) very silly<br>b) wanting to prove me wrong.<br><br>both, are valid reasons...<br><br>but don't come running to me, when you break both legs from jumping out<br>of windows....<br><br>(paradox)<br><br><br><br><br><br><b><i>Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:38:17 +0000 (GMT), Lee Hughes wrote:<br><br>> just because unix lets you do something like this, doesn't mean it's<br>> either correct or sensible. if you want to do online backup like
this<br>> PROPERLY, look at lvm2, which can do hot backup using snapshot files..<br>> <br>> okay,,, dd while mounted is bad, and I'd rather you not post it here<br>> in case people on this list actually take that as good advice, which<br>> it isn't.<br>> <br>> unmount, or use a logical volume manager...end of story.<br><br>Ideally yes. If not then it should still generally be OK. I guess it<br>depends on much guarantee of consistency your after.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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