On 03/19/2013 05:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
The thing is to separate the snapshotting & the quiescing activities so
that the quiescing works regardless of the snapshot technology being
used. Is this more or less what you're doing?
Yes! It might be as simple as:
for x in /usr/lib/snapshot
On 03/19/2013 02:29 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the
> hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots.
Hi,
This is interesting since we have nothing like the VSS infrastructure on
Windows.
My experienc
On 03/19/2013 04:22 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
check out obnam. I'm very pleased with it.
That's not at all the same thing.
You cannot back up files in active use safely. If you have a SQL
server, for instance, you need to either shut it down or quiesce the
data files for the entire duration o
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the
> hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots.
> I've written the first iteration in bash. It took one day to do most of
> the work, and then a few hours of testing and fix
After publicly bitching about Linux's poor backup infrastructure for the
hundredth time, I decided to write a common system for making snapshots.
I've written the first iteration in bash. It took one day to do most of
the work, and then a few hours of testing and fixing to get things
working r
