[CentOS] Good md5sum snapshot tool?

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Thu Jun 4 22:47:47 UTC 2009


On 06/03/2009 10:51 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I always like brute force - and the ability to undo things...  If you
> have space somewhere to rsync (-aH) a backup copy of the filesystems
> before the changes, repeating the rsync with -aHvn --delete, (don't
> forget that -n) will show what is different afterwards.
>

an lvm snapshot might be a better way to achieve this ( and cheaper ) if 
you have the capability, just remember to have space for the cow delta, 
and plan how long you want to keep the snapshot around.

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