rsync is bad

[Karl Larsen]

Chris Rees wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    I have copied running systems to another partition with rsync and 
the new system has been perfect.

Karl


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