> From: Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:58:34PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> | 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.
> 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.
More significantly there was a security problem fixed in January.
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