Hi Jason: On 7/11/07, Jason A. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't tried the backup/restore with rsync, but with tar, doing it on > a live rrds directory would almost always result in at least one IO > error from what I think was tar trying to read a file at the same exact > time that it was being changed by gmetad. This is why we do it by > restarting gmetad, and only once a day. I use rsync to backup the rrds and so far haven't gotten any kind of errors. If you are really paranoid I suppose you could take a snapshot via LVM prior to rsync/tar/cp. Cheers, Bernard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ganglia-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-general
