Ingo Adlung wrote: > Whether the file system is consistent in itself after a restart is > irrelevant form an application perspective if the application has e.g. > state that is independent from the file system content. You can only > capture that by application collaboration or by forcing that state to > be hardened on persistent storage, hence shutting down the application > prior to backup/archive. True, but this is a general restricion of live backups (e.g. file level backup). Not specific to full volume snapshot backup.
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