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). _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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....
---- the changelog in dump suggests otherwise but I don't have first hand experience.
Craig