On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 16:04 -0400, David Boyes wrote:
> FDR physical dumps will not capture data Linux caches in memory

Ah, light comes on.

I saw your statement that an idle system is not good enough for a
consistent backup, and that a LVM snapshot is required.  I guess that
snapshot flushes the cache?  How is that different (other than elapsed
time) from a sync followed by idling the system?

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David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
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