[Gllug] couple of quick questions (USB stick and backups)

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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Mike Brodbelt moaned:
> Richard Jones wrote:
>> I think 'dump' is great. ...  Unfortunately Linus disagrees
>> (http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3) and he probably knows what
>> he's talking about.  It's not possible to dump an ext2/3 filesystem
>> without getting data corruption, unless the filesystem is entirely
>> unmounted, in which case you might as well be using another backup
>> method.
> 
> Backing up mounted filesystems with dump has been an ongoing sore point
> for a long time. In practice, you'll get away with it the vast majority
> of the time, but I'd question whether that's a good attitude to take for
> backups.

I don't see any reason why you can't create LVM/EVMS/device-mapper snapshots
(all the same entity under different names) and then dump *those*.

(Not that I like dump either.)

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