rsync is bad

[Chris Rees]

2008/6/9 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>:
> Chris Rees wrote:
>>
>> 2008/6/8 Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>:
>>>
>>> Chris Rees wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I would NEVER copy / move a running OS itself to another location !!!
>>>>> This needs to be done with separate bootable (Rescue) Tool !!
>>>>> I used either the GParted LiveCD or the System Resue CD's GParted
>>>>> again !
>>>>>
>>>> I know I've been chided for mentioning these before... but
>>>> dump/restore will back up a live filesystem fine!
>>>
>>> Probably because you are wrong a
>>>
>>
>>
>> Damn, that's me assuming that *incredibly* useful features that have
>> been in FreeBSD for years have been taken up by the GNU people.
>>
>> Sorry.
>
> That's OK.  Yet, unless dump/restore does things totally different in
> FreeBSD I doubt it is any more safe to use it there for backing up *live*
> file systems.
>
>

In case you're interested, it is safe for backing up live systems;
using a feature of UFS called snapshots. It also means fsck can be
used on a live system too.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/snapshots.html

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