On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 14:48, James Melin wrote: > Is it possible to setup a runlevel environment where you are in single user > mode but still have network access available? > > Here's the scenario that is causing me to ask this question > > 1) You cannot get 'crisp' backups of a Linux guest while it is running. > Corollary: You cannot cleanly backup a file system that is open r/w.
If you want to do a volume backup, that's true. However, if you can use a file-level backup, then that's not true at all (although you still need to deal with quiescing databases, say, and closing files). Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
