>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Buxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> Voytek Eymont wrote: >> On Wed, December 6, 2006 10:00 pm, Ben Buxton wrote: >>> Voytek Eymont wrote: >> >>>> can I clone a running system ? >>> Yes, you can. >> Ben, thanks for detailed info >> >> what I really meant to ask, was 'can I copy/clone a running systems >> whilst it's in normal operation'; I gather the answer is 'no' Ben> Definitely not. Files that are open for writing might get changed Ben> after they're copied, breaking stuff or leading to duplicate Ben> mail/logs/billing/etc. You can minimise the downtime though. Copy the running system, then bring it to single-user mode and use rsync to update the changed files. Then flip the fstab entries and reboot. Peter c -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
