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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:04:22 -0500
From: Shawn <core@enodev.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>,
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You don't.

This is where you have a filesystem where syslog, xinetd, blogd,
bloatd-config-d2, raffle-ticketd DO NOT LIVE.

People forget so easily the wonders of multiple partitions.

On 07/16, Matthias Andree said something like:
> 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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