>> in *theory* you can do live backup of machines with journaled filesystems >> (at least ext3) without any problem.
Rob van der Heij wrote: > Stop dreaming. Not even in theory - at least not my theory. Well, that is what the device-mapper snapshot target is for: a) make a snapshot, which is very fast because it does not actually copy data b) use dd to copy the snapshot to a backup dasd while writing to the original disk c) destroy the snapshot again cheers, Carsten -- Carsten Otte IBM Linux technology center ARCH=s390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
