Dominic Coulombe wrote: > I'm sorry, but we managed to do live backup of our systems without any > problem. We restored a lot of backup and all were recoverable without any > problem. Even when data was stored on LVM volumes. > > We stop our databases prior to do the backup, sync the filesystems, do a > flashcopy, then restart everything. As the databases are down, I don't see > why we would lose data on those filesystems. I don't mind losing data on > the system filesystems as we are only interested in the database stuff. > > I don't think this approach is the best, nor it is recommended, but it does > works. I'm not dreaming. If the filesystem is per dasd (no LVM or such involved), you are safe to do that regarding files ystem integrity. Regarding integrity for the application, this method is safe only if you either shut it down (like you do) or if all files relevant for the application are on a single dasd.
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