[CentOS] Backup options.

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Apr 4 17:25:45 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:33 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
> 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:
> >>     
> >>> 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!)  ;-)
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AFAICT, that's been fixed in dump since last June so you would probably
have to find other justifications.

Craig




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