Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup of changing files

[Charles Duffy]

Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> I am aware of an earlier thread on this mail list, which proposes 
> using LVM for freezing the source while doing the backup. This will 
> indeed work for my purpose, but will require extensively 
> reconfiguration of my setup and should be unnecessary. Even using LVM, 
> my backup will be in an invalid state (it equals to a database crash). 
> The LVM option adds a lot of complexity for little gain.

My first inclination is still LVM snapshotting. That said, I use 
rdiff-backup for several Oracle databases by running a consistent dump 
before rdiff-backup kicks off, compressing the dump using gzip+rsyncable 
and backing up the dump rather than the database files, so there's a 
distinction between what I'm saying and what I do in practice. :)

That said, since you're using PITR, why not just set the archive_command 
to copy out to a location rdiff-backup picks up from?