[GTALUG] What Not To Backup

[William Park]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> > Yes.  I do
> >      telinit 1
> >      mount -o remount,ro /
> > before running 'dd'.
> 
> Remounting read only will work but that is not what you said to do.
> You will need to make sure all file systems are remounted read only.
> It will work but could have you taking your system offline for quite a while
> to do the full copy if you have something like a 10TB drive.

Our audience is GTALUG members, so they know what we're talking about.
:-)  I have everything in one filesystem.  I do backup of that.  Then,
I take snapshots of the backup.
-- 
William