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? -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
