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

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