Good questions.. I would think if nothing else you could end up with
potentially invalid hardlink targets in the tar archive if the
background cleanup process is running, but I'm not sure.
Check out the howto for LVM information. It should explain everything.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
Dan-
max wrote:
It's rigth that Dan wrote?
but... if i go the the web interface and i run the archive command
while the backuppc service is running, i will have the same
incosistant tar archive?
What's do you mean for "incosistent"? That isn't the last archived, or
that contain wrong/corrupped data?
Please tell me more about the LVM snapshot... sound interesting :)
best,
MaX
Dan Cox wrote:
I believe you could potentially have an inconsistent tar archive if
the backuppc service is running while you are generating your
archive. The safest method would be to use LVM volumes on your backup
server, and then just create an LVM snapshot and back up the snapshot
so you won't need to shut down backuppc.
Dan-
max wrote:
Hi all,
below my approach used on a backuppc server, for the second copy of
archive in a iPod via usb (but you can use a more big
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