Thanks very much for your quick answer.

I post my message directly in the list without looking
in the archives.

The message was for one of my production servers which
need to be absolutely backuped up. And i was very
confused.

In the future i will search the archives before post
here.

Thanks again.


 --- Christoph Scheeder
<christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de> a écrit : > Hi,
> first, its a STRANGE message not an ERROR message.
> second, for my reading it means the following:
> You are using vxdump on an active filesystem, and
> some files
> changed while the dump was done.
> these files won't be correct revoverable, but most
> of your
> dump should be ok.
> 
> if you use any version of dump keep in mind it was
> designed
> to take backups from an inactive filesystem,
> either unmounted or mounted read-only.
> Nevertheless most dump-programs do a good job on
> more or
> less active filesystems.
> Most backups will be recoverable fine, but some
> files/dir's
> may be corrupted badly.
> If you can't live with that, take your servers to
> single-user-mode
> before running backups or use tar,  or snapshots, or
> whatever
> tools exist for your filesystem to freeze them or
> get snapshots.
> This task pop's up 2 or 3 times a year on the list,
> so for the
> various arguments on which program to use best,
> please read the
> list-archives.
> 
> more for the list:
> 
> !!!I DON'T WANT TO START THIS DISCUSSON AGAIN
> PLEASE!!!
> 
> Christoph
> 


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