John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or you could just use gtar
As long as you don't mind altering the last access time of every file
that is backed up.
Well, that can be avoided too. I remount my data partitions prior to
backup to noatime (this also speeds up the estimating
Hi,
if i read this statement of Linus correct the only thing he is saying
is:
don't run dump on a filesystem which could be active.
That isn't realy new.
it is known very well that dump has problems with active filesystems,
as it bypasses the normal way data gets read and written to disk.
Also Sprach Christoph Scheeder:
Hi,
if i read this statement of Linus correct the only thing he is saying
is:
don't run dump on a filesystem which could be active.
That isn't realy new.
it is known very well that dump has problems with active filesystems,
as it bypasses the normal
I've seen ads for the commercial and pricey backup packages from
Syncsoft, Veritas and so on which claim no problems with live backups
on *nix or NT. I suppose they have some way of write-locking files,
copy to memory, then releasing the lock, but how could these utils
work at the block rather
At 08:50 28-04-01 -0500, you wrote:
I've seen ads for the commercial and pricey backup packages from
Syncsoft, Veritas and so on which claim no problems with live backups
on *nix or NT. I suppose they have some way of write-locking files,
copy to memory, then releasing the lock, but how could
Veritas file-system (VxFS) can make what they call a 'snapshot' of a file
system. The idea is to take a snapshot of a filesystem and mount it as
readonly on another device. Whenever a block on the original filesystem is
altered the old one is copied to the snapshot and thus keeping this in
* Jesper Holm Olsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010428 08:47]:
At 08:50 28-04-01 -0500, you wrote:
I've seen ads for the commercial and pricey backup packages from
Syncsoft, Veritas and so on which claim no problems with live backups
on *nix or NT. I suppose they have some way of write-locking
* Daniel David Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:27:11PM -0700)
Why not? Have you seen/had problems with recent versions of gnu tar, or
Sun's bundled tar? I have seen problems with versions of tars
Unless gnutar is the latest (1.13.19 I think.
Chances ae it will screw you
Unless gnutar is the latest (1.13.19 I think.
Chances ae it will screw you over backward (that is SEGV) whern you really
need it to read stuff back from tape.
Sun tar has other porblems (try using suntar on the latest qt snapshot).
Yeah definitely. I suspect, though, that the qt
I've searched the archives for something related to this problem, but
haven't been successful. I also have tried upgrading amanda to a
recent version, but the configs don't seem to be compatible going from
2.4.1p1 to 2.4.2p2 (question in and of itself).
Here's the situation. Solaris 7, amanda
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