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 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.... ---- the changelog in dump suggests otherwise but I don't have first hand experience. Craig