> -----Original Message----- > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Mauritz > > Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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