Voytek Eymont wrote: > On Wed, December 6, 2006 10:00 pm, Ben Buxton wrote: >> Voytek Eymont wrote: > >>> can I clone a running system ? >> Yes, you can. > > Ben, thanks for detailed info > > what I really meant to ask, was 'can I copy/clone a running systems whilst > it's in normal operation'; I gather the answer is 'no'
Definitely not. Files that are open for writing might get changed after they're copied, breaking stuff or leading to duplicate mail/logs/billing/etc. It's always important to make sure the filesystem you're copying is not going to be changed mid-copy - either mount read-only or be really sure that no process will write to it - in which case a readonly mount can be done anyway. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
