On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:32:20PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote: > > 1) Make a snapshot > > 2) Use dump to back up that completely static filesystem image > > 3) Remove the snapshot > > This is NOT guaranteed to work - it may, if you're lucky. By doing this > you're guaranteeing that the database files, no matter how active the > database, are frozen in time via the snapshot. But the big issue that you're > failing to address here is that any one point in time the database files are > not internally consistent.
They're always consistent. If they hadn't been, you would not be able to recover from a crash / powerfailure. -- Ragnar Kj�rstad Big Storage
