On Monday 15 July 2002 11:26 am, Vivek Khera wrote:
| >>>>> "RT" == Richard Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >>
| >> Yes. You need to wait for the system to "settle down" before dumping.
|
| RT> Is there any way to wait until a soft-update filesystem is up-to-date -
| RT> something like sync (which doesn't wait for soft updates to complete).
|
| RT> Of course you can unmount and remount, but that's not always possible.
|
| The *only* way to guarantee a level 0 dump is complete and accurate is
| to do it with the file system unmounted.
. . . or monted read-only . . .
For me, that is pretty much
| not possible to do (I hate scheduling downtime when I'm awake since it
| affects many other users... and I hate waking up at 2am to do it).
| Thus, I just live with possibly inconsistent dumps. Such is life.
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