On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 02:43:49PM -0600, McKown, John wrote: > On to what output device? I think it is legitimate to use the "dd" command: > > dd if=/dev/dasda of=... > > If you have VM, then you could use DDR, but only on a disk whos filesystems > are all either unmounted or mounted as read-only (otherwise the dump is > "fuzzy" and likely not correct).
The same is true for using dd. If you need a consistent backup of an entire "live" filesystem, you need to make a snapshot using a volume manager such as LVM or EVMS, and dump that. -- - mdz
