Re: [Lurker-users] Back up of the Lurker system

[Wesley W. T. <we...@te...>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Robert Woodworth
<ro...@a1...>wrote:

> This is embarrassing, I really SHOULD know how to do this, but I don’t.
>
> How do I lock this file ?
>

>From a shell script:
flock -e /var/lib/lurker/db.writer -c your-script-that-runs-tar-or-whatever


>  When you say block level, you mean something like “dump” or “tar” ?
>

I meant something like LVM.