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 at 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.... P.