Hi,

> You need to have your system running LVM, but once it is, you can
> create a snapshot partition.  The kernel stops any data from being
> written to the normal partition and writes any changes to the smaller
> snapshot area.  The filesystem can then be backed up, even while it
> appears to be in use.  Once the backup completes, the snapshot data
> can be applied to the regular partition..
>
> I don't know how you'd get something like this to work in Amanda,
> though.. I suspect there needs to be some client-side scripting
> ability for it to work properly.

Up to now - yes. We are just having a discussion over this matter on 
amanda-hackers. Just look in the archives.

Christopher


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