On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 07:54:17AM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:14 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > On 02/11/11 5:12 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > >> > >> OTOH, for mere backup using rsync and ssh might work even better and be > >> somewhat simplier. > > > > except that provides no point in time restoration ability. > > > > I prefer backup schemes that use dump/restore to do occasional full and > > regular incremental backups, and for these, NFS is quite useful. > > rsnapshot is a perl script wrapper for rsync. Works *beautifully* to > provide hardlinked temporal snapshot repositories, I've used it > effectively for years. > > dump/restore is also deprecated because it's reading the raw > fileystem, and modern Linux (such as CentOS 5.x) does a lot of paging. > So data that is still paged out yet, and not yet written to disk, is > not backed up correctly and likely to be corrupt. Definitely switch to > tar, or star if you need SELinux permissions backed up, to write to > disk or for temporal snapshots of your OS. dump/restore deprecated??? Sounds like your own personal pronouncement. dump/restore is very actively used. > > Rsync, unfortunately, has issues with SELinux restoration in my experience. SELinux has lots of issues with lots of things making its value suspect. ////jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos