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The article doesn't go into much details on the atomicity of the backups: Are the backups performed while the mount points are still being written to? If the
by Galanwe 6y ago
The article doesn't go into much details on the atomicity of the backups:
Are the backups performed while the mount points are still being written to?
If the block device is locked during the backup, does the writes fail or just block?
- derekp7 6y agoIt uses standard "tar" and "find" commands on the client. If you have something like a database, then you should exclude the dbf files and uses the database's tools to put the DB in hot backup mode (using a snebu-client plugin script -- there is a template script in the manpage for snebu-client-plugin(5). You can also create a plugin script that performs a disk snapshot (using LVM snapshot or similar), then mount and backup from that.