Alan Altmark wrote: > But, Carsten, the application may start up just fine, however it may be > using old data. I have an application running on my workstation right now > that saves its configuration data only when you shut it down (working as > designed according to the vendor). Since the application is only > terminated when the system is shut down, a live backup of the disk would > have no effect. I mean, it would restore and run just fine, but be > running with old data. Well, backups are always about using old data in case of recovery as far as I can see. Using an application that saves important data only on shutdown in a mission critical environment is very dangerous regardless of the backup soloution.
> I can jump up and down and stamp my feet, claiming that the application is > broken, but that doesn't make it so. What application (Server Application on Linux) acts like you claim? regards, Carsten ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
