On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:26:25AM -0700, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "RT" == Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping. > RT> Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date - > RT> something like sync (which doesn't wait for soft updates to complete). > > RT> Of course you can unmount and remount, but that's not always possible. > > The *only* way to guarantee a level 0 dump is complete and accurate is > to do it with the file system unmounted. For me, that is pretty much > not possible to do (I hate scheduling downtime when I'm awake since it > affects many other users... and I hate waking up at 2am to do it). > Thus, I just live with possibly inconsistent dumps. Such is life.
-current has a snapshot facility. In the future, I'd expect that you should be able to dump from a snapshot. -d To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
