I may be wrong here, more reading than experience in this particular area, but my understanding is that it would still recommend making sure nothing's writing to the database while the dump is taken.
For a heavily used transactional systems with complex relational structures, IMO it's possible that otherwise there would be data inconsistencies - e.g. this table's been updated but that one hasn't yet completed. Probably less important for mailstores. On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Doug Lytle <supp...@drdos.info> wrote: > hans...@gmail.com wrote: >> If you want >> to really minimize the downtime, then using LVM snapshotting is a good >> option. >> >> 1. shut down the service >> 2 take the snapshot >> > > Just an addition to this, > > If using the XFS file system, snapshotting will cause LVM to preform an > file system freeze, just before the snapshot. No shutting down the > service is needed. > > Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
