Full Disclosure mailing list archives
Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me)
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 04:22:22 -0400
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:54:01 PDT, coderman said:
with a snapshot of a volume at 05/30/2011-18:50:30, you know the backup process performed on that snapshot is truly a backup of the data as of 05/30/2011-18:50:30 no matter how long it takes to iterate over / analyze the files within it.
Significant quibble: It's a backup of the data *as it existed on the disk* as of that timestamp. If it's a file that's backing any production database more complicated than the older Berkeley DBM package, it will almost certainly *not* restore to anything usable without help from the database (either by making the database quiesce for a moment while you snapshot, or other methods that are able to ensure a self-consistent version is backed up). I've seen all too many sysadmins trying to figure out why Oracle won't come back up after restoring the file that had the tables in it.... (And of course, the same issues apply if you're trying to do forensics on a bad backup of a database.)
Attachment:
_bin
Description:
_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) halfdog (May 30)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) coderman (May 30)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) Andrew Farmer (May 30)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) coderman (May 30)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) coderman (May 30)
- [Security Tool] INSECT Pro 2.6.1 is here Juan Sacco (May 30)
- Re: [Security Tool] INSECT Pro 2.6.1 is here Jeff Blaum (May 31)
- Re: [Security Tool] INSECT Pro 2.6.1 is here Peter Osterberg (May 31)
- Re: [Security Tool] INSECT Pro 2.6.1 is here ichib0d crane (May 31)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) Andrew Farmer (May 30)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) Valdis . Kletnieks (May 31)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) coderman (May 30)
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) halfdog (May 31)
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Message not available
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) halfdog (May 31)
- Re: File system recursion and symlinks: A never-ending story (and how to bring it to an end for me) coderman (May 30)