-----Original Message----- [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Mauritz
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.
I agree. I install an extra disk and do a disk to disk dump. Periodically, I compress/download the dumps and store them offsite. I "discovered" dump back in the BSDI 1.0 days (my God...15 years ago...hehe) and haven't felt like I needed anything more complex since then. It just plain works.
This is where I sit with FreeBSD. In version 5.x and up, you can snapshot the slice (partition) to make sure everything goes nice. It seems after reading http://dump.sourceforge.net/ that we are not there yet on Linux. No matter. I run mostly web and email servers and other then MySQL the drives to not change all that much, I will just make sure I make use of sync. MySQL in FreeBSD (and I am sure Linux) keeps its table files in a state of corruption (as per fsck), so I just make sure I do database dumps twice daily.
Thanks again.
-Erin