On Wednesday, 07/26/2006 at 02:55 EST, J Leslie Turriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the majority of Linux > applications (probably excepting database packages and such) rely on the > filesystem to eventually get their data to disk without them doing > anything besides open, write and close operations.
And <snap!> the circle is closed. Hence this entire thread/rant about shutting down servers while you are flashcopying or otherwise performing external physical backups. If you know what you and the application are doing, take a live backup. If you don't, don't. If the application provides you with a set of backup functions, use them. Oh, and the point that actually started the whole thing: Test your backups. You should already be doing that in your DR tests, but if you change your processes, re-test. "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza...." ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
