Thus spake Nick Rogness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been running dump for years on live filesystems with FreeBSD > and never had a problem. I was not aware of any snapshot feature > available for 4.X-STABLE (only 5.0)? > > umounting a live filesystem to back it up is not a solution. What > should I be using to backup a live filesystem?
In 5.0-CURRENT, you can use dump on a snapshot to get a completely consistent view of the filesystem. But when you dump a filesystem as it's changing, you get an inconsistent view of its metadata, and possibly a corrupted backup. One of many solutions is to use tar. You'll get a good backup, even though it won't exactly be an atomic snapshot. (File contents might change during the operation.) See the archives for more discussions of backup programs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
