> On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 17:48 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Thank you Vittorio for your script, but you are stopping the cyrus and >> I think it's very problematic in production environment. > > I think the point is that, short of using some of the replication stuff > from pre-2.3 in CVS, there's no proper way of doing a hot backup. All > of the snapshotting techniques (whether filesystem snapshots, rsync or > otherwise) require a little bit of downtime to complete, but are > employed *specifically* to minimize downtime.
I don't completely agree here, there are ways to do snapshots without any downtime for example in a SAN environment or using filesystem or LVM based snapshot methods. However, it does not mean your snapshots are really consistent from the aplications point of view. Simon ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
