[CentOS] XFS or EXT3 ?

[Les Mikesell]

On 12/3/2010 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
> Thanks to everyone that answered, for all the replies to my
> questions about XFS.
>
> I've taken note of the points raised, and gone with ext3 for
> now (again).
>
> I do have a backup strategy in place, and you can use my PHP
> script from here, if you like it:
>
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248436
>
> Having made regular backups to the hard drive, I then as I
> feel is appropriate, make CD/DVD backups from the backup
> drive.
>
> I've lost hard drives and data in the past, so now I take
> precautions not to loose any data I need.

Whenever anyone mentions backups, I like to plug the backuppc program 
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/index.html and packaged in EPEL).  It 
uses compression and hardlinks all duplicate files to keep much more 
history than you'd expect on line with a nice web interface - and does 
pretty much everything automatically.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com