> Milan Babuskov wrote:
> > --- Nigel Weeks wrote:
> >> We use it for all of our firebird synchronizations, even on live
> >> databases, although we use FreeBSD filesystem snapshots, which
> >> Linux and Windows are yet to "invent".
> >
> > Well, not really, Linux has it. It was alvailable for 2.4 kernels, and
> > since about a week ago, 2.6 kernel is also supported:
> >
> > http://www.ext3cow.com/

> Not to mention snapshot support in both LVM and EVMS.

> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/evms/evmscreatesnap.html

Excellent! Now everyone can play!
Perhaps snapshotting of filesystems could make it into Firebird docs as a
handy method to assist backups?


Nigel Weeks
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