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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives
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James Blackwell |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives |
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Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:00:15 -0400 |
In lists.arch.users, you wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 12:58, Tom Lord wrote:
>> The problem is that a program like `tar' is going to non-atomicly
>> traverse the tree. That means that at time T it's going to "take a
>> snapshot" of some part of the archive tree and at time T+1 it'll take
>> a snapshot of some other part of the archive tree. tar makes no
>> guarantee about the ordering of scope of those snapshots.
>
> Pity more people don't use something akin to LVM snapshotting to
> guarantee that their backups are based off a state guaranteed to have
> existed at some point in time.
(Evil grin)
People that have public archives already have a live backup --
http://mirrors.gnuarch.org/(archivename)
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- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Matthieu MOY, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Dustin Sallings, 2004/04/09
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Julian T. J. Midgley, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Dustin Sallings, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Tom Lord, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Tom Lord, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Charles Duffy, 2004/04/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives,
James Blackwell <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Julian T. J. Midgley, 2004/04/10
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Backing up Arch archives, Tom Lord, 2004/04/10