On 8/16/10 10:49 AM, "McKown, John" <john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't doing a "dd" in the running Linux guest to a separate disk, then > backing up that disk result in a good backup? Assuming that the application > has synced its data, of course. If you unmount the filesystem you dumped to, yes. But, you have to have as much free disk as you have primary disk for that to work well (and if you're using LVM, that still gets tricky in terms of consistency sets on restore). That's where Amanda and Bacula come into play. -- db
