> >Yes, but it's for running a dump on a (L)ive FS and just spits out warnings > >to that effect and has no effect on solving the problem(s). > > Unless the filesystem is very busy, you will get your data backed up. > If you have things like databases, I still would not trust > snapshots.
Uh. If backuping up a live database from a snapshot is not trustworthy, either the snapshot facility is broken or the database is broken (i.e., not crash-safe to begin with). That said there are plenty of other reasos to use proper dump tools (data portability, confirming the ability to actually read all rows from a table, using a more often exercised code path and perhaps less likely to have edge case bugs, etc). -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schul...@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgp...@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schul...@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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