[GTALUG] What Not To Backup

[Kevin Cozens]

On 16-12-23 03:56 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
>     telinit 1
>     mount -o remount,ro /
> before running 'dd'.

The only problem with doing a dd to backup is that it takes a lot longer 
than doing an rsync. It also makes the machine unavailable for use during 
the backup. Not a problem if you schedule the backup to run overnight when 
you would not be using the machine.

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