Den 28.12.2017 01:51, skrev Steve Litt:

> The one downfall of my method is if you absolutely, positively need
> atomic backups: database files, for instance. You'd need to stop work
> on the computer being backed up. In the case of my Daily Driver
> Desktop, which contains 3,874,727 files, the entire backup takes about
> 5 minutes, the last 1.5 minutes of which is the cp -al phase, during
> which the computer being backed up can go an about its business.

Had you used btrfs instead, you could make a snapshot of your file system.
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Hilsen Harald