On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 18:14, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 4:40 PM -0500 10/26/05, Les Mikesell wrote: > ... > >I think if you use dump, the right approach would be to use LVM and > >make a snapshot first, then back up the snapshot. Does anyone know > >if this actually works? > > I don't think it will have anything to do with the problem at hand, of data > in the Linux disk cache. To use dump safely the filesystem must not be > mounted. Yes, but it should only take a few moments of being unmounted to set up the snapshot vs. perhaps hours to make the backup copy. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx