On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:58:34PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: | On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 21:39, Phil Howard wrote: | > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:07:33AM +0100, Matthew Toseland wrote: | > | > | Ummm, LVM snapshots? (man lvcreate). | > | > No. Nothing to do with LVM. | > | | Doing it safely will require something like lvm or evms snapshots. You | could do the sector by sector copy and then run reiserfsck | --rebuild-tree. The latest versions of reiserfsprogs are faster, the | speed relative to a search for updated files will depend on your data | set. | | More importantly you just don't get a consistent copy, regardless of the | FS you choose. I wouldn't consider a sector by sector copy on a mounted | FS a valid backup of any type of filesystem, especially not a tree based | one.
I've never have a problem doing this with ext2 filesystems. By comparison I have had ext2 filesystems totally corrupted by just a power-reset. But I'm starting to think that with reiserfs, I need to go back to rsync as the backup mechanism. Some memory leak and stalling problems with rsync seem to be fixed, now. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------
