Call sync before taking an LVM snapshot

11 years ago · c7273ea5c3
parent ef0c33ae97
commit c7273ea5c3
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@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ sub prepare_backup{
                        }
                        close MOUNT;
                    }
+                    die "Couldn't call sync before taking the snapshot: $!\n" unless (system ("/bin/sync") == 0);
                    if (!$is_mounted && create_snapshot($lvm,$time)){
                        print "$lvm seems to be a valid logical volume (LVM), a snapshot has been taken as " .
                            $lvm . $time ."\n" if ($opts{debug});