Re: Consistent live fsfs backups without copy

From: Phil Endecott <spam_from_subversion_users_at_chezphil.org>
Date: 2006-05-02 19:00:51 CEST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Scott Lamb <slamb@slamb.org> wrote:
> On May 2, 2006, at 3:51 AM, Phil Endecott wrote:
> > Have a look at LVM snapshots.
>
> The LVM HOWTO used to talk about using "xfs_freeze" to guarantee
> consistency if you're using XFS. I don't see a similar tool for ext3
> or anything telling me whether it's unnecessary or impossible.

It's unnecessary in reasonably recent kernels and LVM versions.
I'm afraid I can't tell you what "recent" actually means though.

--Phil.

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