You would still have to mount -o remount,ro while doing this... I'd just tape backup the actual files. Then you can use that backup on something other than the same raid cluster/disks. Also, you don't have to backup everything (such as /usr), unless you want to/can afford to. -Gryn (Adam Luter) On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:20:21PM +0100, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote: > Might it not be a good idea to DD the raw contents of each disk to a tape drive, just incase you fubar the array? It would be time consuming, but at least you could restore your data in the event that it gets corrupted. > > John. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
