Re: simple backup script

[Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com>]

Kirk Strauser wrote:

> At 2003-09-02T04:58:31Z, Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com> writes:
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> > I guess if your 2nd hard disk is the same size or larger than the first
> > and you want an exact copy of everything then dd might be the way to do
> > it.
> >    
>
> Umm, no.  dd gives consistent backups *only if* the drive being copied not
> mounted writeable.  If not, then there's a very significant possibility that
> the backup may not even be fsck'able.
>
> rsync is pretty handy for syncing live filesystems.
>  
Cool, thanks for the tip. I'll add that right next to "don't use dump" 
on my list of things to avoid. :)

Jacob