On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote: > > Yes. I do > > telinit 1 > > mount -o remount,ro / > > before running 'dd'. > > Remounting read only will work but that is not what you said to do. > You will need to make sure all file systems are remounted read only. > It will work but could have you taking your system offline for quite a while > to do the full copy if you have something like a 10TB drive.
Our audience is GTALUG members, so they know what we're talking about. :-) I have everything in one filesystem. I do backup of that. Then, I take snapshots of the backup. -- William --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk