Hi, in *theory* you can do live backup of machines with journaled filesystems (at least ext3) without any problem.
Linux will repair filesystems from journal after recovering your backups. You need to be sure that there is no activity on the Linux machine, or you might end with corrupted data. As an example, you can stop your Oracle databases, backup, then restart the databases. The backup will end beeing the in same state of a machine you re-IPL without correct shutdown. It is not clean, but it will start in most cases. On 7/24/06, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did you shutdown your Linux servers before you took the backups? The archives are filled with discussions about the need to shutdown your Linux servers before performing an external media-level backup.
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