On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:23:42PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > > Nicolas KOWALSKI writes: > >> Yes, dump is working well with ext3 filesystems, as long as they > >> are not actively modified. LVM may come to help here. > > > > Many thanks. That is a problem more or less with any backup method > > that doesn't unmount and convert to read-only a given file system. > > I use rsync. It's fairly consistent, even if the file system is in use. > Your situation will be worse, however, if, say a data base application > writes a lot to many different files at different times and the > combination of different files might turn out inconsistent. Shouldn't databases be backed-up with a database dump to a file anyway rather than backing up the raw database files? You could run the database dump and pipe the output through ssh to the backup server into a file there.
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