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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks
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On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Stelian Pop wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:11:20AM -0400, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> 
> > In other words you have a backup system that works some of the time or
> > even most of the time... brilliant!
> 
> Dump is a backup system that works 100% of the time when used as 
> it was designed to: on unmounted filesystems (or mounted R/O).

Practical question: how do I get a file system mounted R/O for backup
with dump without putting that system into single-user mode?
Particularly when running automated backups, this is an issue. I cannot
kill all writers (syslog, Postfix, INN, CVS server, ...) on my
production machines just for the sake of taking a backup.
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