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> If you put the filesystem of interest on its own partition, then
> ISTM you can mount -o remount,ro that one file system, and it should
> remain static during the backup. All data will still be available,
> though unmodifiable. Clearly, one would need to do something like
> an lsof to ensure
Hi,
I'm hoping I can start a brief thread discussing the potential risks involved
with backing up live mounted (RW) ext2/3/4 filesystems using dump(8). Here are
the reasons I ask this:
1. My understanding is that it is safest to dump unmounted filesystems to
ensure all buffers are flushed an
