Re: Do snapshots solve all consistency problems ?

2005-08-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I acknowledge Joerg's effort to make this as safe as possible by help of his program star. I consider to learn about LVM in order to get filesystem snapshots. I don't know whether and iff, how Linux supports snapshots. Solaris and FreeBSD do it in a very smilar way

License issue?

2005-08-17 Thread Alvaro Lopez Ortega
Hi all, I have been reading the dvd+rw-tools FAQ and I have found this in there: === Version 5.6 adds support for Solaris 2.x [commercial licensing terms for distribution on Solaris are to be settled with Inserve Technology]. === I am wondering how is it possible to this be compatible

Re: License issue?

2005-08-17 Thread scdbackup
Hi, Andy (i guess) states on http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/solaris.com.html --- Clarification Note Commercial licensing terms for distribution on Solaris means that if a 3rd party would like to include

Do snapshots solve all consistency problems ?

2005-08-17 Thread scdbackup
Hi, Joerg Schilling wrote: I don't know whether and iff, how Linux supports snapshots. Solaris and FreeBSD do it in a very smilar way since 2002. From http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html : # lvcreate -L592M -s -n dbbackup /dev/ops/databases ... lvcreate -- logical

Do snapshots solve all consistency problems ?

2005-08-17 Thread scdbackup
Hi again, i just understand why i did not notice that reduced optimism in the man page of star Joerg Schilling wrote: From the new star man page: ... may result in inconsistent file states ... It is _new_. Sorry for not reading before writing. I thought remembering dumpdate=name would