[plug] imaging HD

[James Devenish]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:14:03PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 11:10:26AM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> For some platforms, there are no-cost/included tools that can assist 'on
> the fly' backups by creating a snapshot of the filesystem.

BTW of course you can do the same thing manually, but the advantage of a
snapshot-style facility is that you don't have to manually/script a way
to make 'known-good' copies of files for the purpose of backup. It's
"instantaneous", so apart from a pause with some daemons, there's no
need for "sorry, our site is down for maintenance". And it's easy to
automate without a lot of pain or even maintenance.