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Yohoo!
>> My way to backup the backup ;-) is LVM
>> The pool is on a LVM as a LV. To backup the pool while backuppc is
>> running I can take a snapshot of the pool's LV and I rsync this one. So
>> there are no filesystem issues and backuppc can stay running while the
>> rsync is running.
>> Works like a champ!
> Except your filesystem is not in a stable state. 
You're partially right. AFAIK with journaling filesystem (like the ext3)
this shouldn't be an issue. I'm not dumping the partition with dd,
istead I mount the snapshot read-only.
I'm using rsync- so it reads the filesystem. Files not been written
totally should not be seen in the snapshot.

Greetings

Christian
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