On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 09:29:34AM -0700, ghe enlightened us:
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> 
> >Charles Curley wrote:
> >>
> 
> >>An excludes file.
> 
> >I got the sense that he wanted to back them up.
> 
> Yes, I do.
> 
> >I get around that problem by using snapshots. But I'm on Solaris 9,  
> >where I have fssnap and a wrapper so that when Amanda calls ufsdump  
> >it ends up doing a snapshot and backing up the snapshot.
> 
> That'll do it. AFAIK, the snapshots concept doesn't exist on Linux.  
> But since I'm running amdump from a shell script already, I can do it  
> myself: ssh over and cp -r the directory, then back up the clone (I'm  
> assuming cp isn't as picky as tar).
> 
> Thanks for the replies, both of you.

You can do snapshots with LVM on Linux.

Matt

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