Thanks very much for your quick answer. I post my message directly in the list without looking in the archives.
The message was for one of my production servers which need to be absolutely backuped up. And i was very confused. In the future i will search the archives before post here. Thanks again. --- Christoph Scheeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hi, > first, its a STRANGE message not an ERROR message. > second, for my reading it means the following: > You are using vxdump on an active filesystem, and > some files > changed while the dump was done. > these files won't be correct revoverable, but most > of your > dump should be ok. > > if you use any version of dump keep in mind it was > designed > to take backups from an inactive filesystem, > either unmounted or mounted read-only. > Nevertheless most dump-programs do a good job on > more or > less active filesystems. > Most backups will be recoverable fine, but some > files/dir's > may be corrupted badly. > If you can't live with that, take your servers to > single-user-mode > before running backups or use tar, or snapshots, or > whatever > tools exist for your filesystem to freeze them or > get snapshots. > This task pop's up 2 or 3 times a year on the list, > so for the > various arguments on which program to use best, > please read the > list-archives. > > more for the list: > > !!!I DON'T WANT TO START THIS DISCUSSON AGAIN > PLEASE!!! > > Christoph > ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com
