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Rasmus Andersen wrote: |
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> FreeBSD's softupdates should make filesystem state always consistent, |
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> metadatawise. Or so I think I remember, its been a while. That might |
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> aleviate some of the problems noted on the dump page I referenced. |
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Freebsd's dump -L (live option) uses ufs2 snapshot capability to ensure |
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consistency, so its dump is reasonably smart. (FWIW / on Freebsd usually |
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does not have softupdates specified, so usually won't help here). So |
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yeah, it looks like some care is needed with plain old 'dump' on Linux - |
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which is a bit of a pest! |
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> I use rdiff-backup for my backups but then again I have low requirements |
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> wrt. consistency outside file-level. I have considered LVM snapshots |
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> since I use LVM already but havent bothered so far. |
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Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this |
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sort of stuff. |
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