Re: backups

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:48:04PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> Well, it's not quite the same thing.  You can't safely dump a live
> filesystem, making it unusable for me.  Also it's far less granular than
> an archiver like tar or dar.

Have you looked at making lvm snapshots and dumping those?

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