RE: [MLUG] backup

["Matthew Ross" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Blocking out the rest of the world keeps people from abusing your system being already under heavy load, and also lets people know immediately that the server is busy, instead of just letting them wait for a timeout.

> > It isn't only security, but availability. If this is used 
> 24/7, certain
> > methods simply won't work. I prefer to block out the rest 
> of the world,
> > run my backup, and then let everything back in again when finished,
> [snip]
> 
> Just curious -- does it cause a problem to use a "tar | gzip" approach
> when the files being backed up are being written to by other 
> processes?
> It seems to me that it wouldn't really mess up the backup, but I'm not
> sure.  You'd have some incomplete data, but is that worse 
> than blocking
> out the world and having none of that data?
> 
> Mike
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