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.