[CentOS] Backup options.

Chris Mauritz chrism at imntv.com
Tue Apr 4 15:33:00 UTC 2006


Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 12:20 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 10:43:07AM -0400, Erin Fortenberry wrote:
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>>> I am a long time FreeBSD user and have been using dump/restore for many
>>> years for disk to disk backups.
>>>
>>> Now I am getting more and more into FC4 and CentOS, but am I stuck on only
>>> using tar/star for backups?
>>>       
>> I'm using dump/restore on CentOS.
>>
>> AFAIK, it is the best "backup software" avaliable.
>>
>>     
>
> Just for the record ... at one time there were issues with dump/restore
> and selinux extended attributes.  These are now supposed to be fixed.
>   

That was actually one of the reasons I got into the habit of disabling 
SELinux.  (Hi Craig!)  ;-)

Cheers,





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