Subject Re: [firebird-support] Live backup firebird database using LVM
Author Hannes Streicher
Guten Tag Christian,


> I need to hot backup large Firebird databases to other physical locations.
> This databases are in LVM partitions.
> It's safe to snapshot the filesystem and copy the file database
> (from the snapshot of course) to the other location using rsync?

NO , data keep in Memory may not be flushed out to disk yet ,
or still halfway thru

> There are any risk to get a corrupted database?

Yes 100%

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