Re: backing up a drive

[John Fleming]

> A pointer: take a dump of the entire drive (dd if=/dev/hda) and not 
> just
> partition.

Please tell this newbie additional info that's probably obvious to everyone 
else - What all should be stopped while dd is doing it's thing, IOW stop 
mail server and anything else that might be actively trying to change files 
during the dd?  What all comes to mind - mail, cron, Apache...others??

What's the worst thing that might happen if active services are NOT 
stopped - a jumbled mail message or could the whole filesystem end up 
unusable in this case??

Thanks - John


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