[GTALUG] What Not To Backup

[John Moniz]

On 12/23/2016 04:58 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> 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, some of us GTALug members are nothing more than home desktop 
users. ;-)