Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Atomicity of backups?

[itmanager]

> perhaps the easiest answer of all is to say that if folks need
> automicity on mirror updates then they should mirror onto filesystems
> which are mounted on snapshot-capable volume managers.  take a volume
> snapshot at the start -- perform the mirror update, and then delete
> the volume snapshot.  if fatal problems occur then revert to the
> snapshot state and the entire backup attempt will be discarded.

Nice idea.  Is there such a volume manager available for Linux?

Phil
Phil Chandler
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HDRA
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