Re: reliable backup techniques

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:34:15AM -0800, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> On Linux, you can use the Linux volume manager, and create a temporary
> snapshot and tar that up.  If you have to go back to it, the database will
> have to recover on startup, just as if the machine had crashed at that
> point.  That's much better than a regular tar, in which the database would
> be likely unrecoverable.

Hmm.  Is it guaranteed to be consistent?  I looked at Veritas for
this purpose, and I gathered there was a small possibility of
inconsistency, so I haven't done it (though I'd like to, because it'd
be much faster under some circumstances).

A

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