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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Is it safe to modify a file when duplicity is backu
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Peter Schuller |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Is it safe to modify a file when duplicity is backuping it? |
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Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:20:14 +0100 |
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> It's not really much of a problem, except for databases that are active,
> and there's not one simple solution for all cases. This is not limited
> to duplicity, all backup systems have problems with an active system.
The general solution is that of file system level snapshots or
something similar. I heartily recommend it to anyone interesting in
taking consistent backups without worrying about specific files or the
relationship between them.
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/ Peter Schuller
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