[CentOS] Backup options.

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 00:59 +0100, Peter Farrow wrote:
> Dale Sykora wrote:
> > 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 use a variation of snapshot + dump for fast backups on a fc4 box.  I 
> > would expect it to work on centos as well.  Basically I use LVM and 
> > create a volume group on a large drive.  Then create a logical 
> > partition using 50% or less of the volume group.  Once a week I create 
> > a read only snapshot of the logical partition which takes about 2 
> > seconds.  Then I dump the snapshot to tape and delete the snapshot 
> > partition.  I don't even have unmount the filesystem so it works well 
> > on a live system (atleast in my experience).
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> I use dump and restore on Centos.... no problems...  dump doesn't do the 
> ACL stuff in SELinux, but I don't use SELinux "enhancements" anyway....
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the changelog in dump suggests otherwise but I don't have first hand
experience.

Craig