On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 16:48 -0600, Rick Sewill wrote: > I've been confused what backup program, dump or tar, to use. > > At first, I was using dump to back up my partitions. I might throw another suggestion in: One of the RAID techniques where several drives are mirrors of each other. Once you flush databases to disc, you have several virtually identical drives. You can pull out one (or more) and put it on the shelf as your backup, and insert a new drive (which you'll add to the raid, and turn it into yet another mirror of the other drives). As a recovery process, the reverse is implemented. You pull out your current drives with a broken system, and fire up from your backup drives you had sitting on your shelf. As with all backup techniques, it's then up to work out how bridge the difference between when you made your backup and when the failure occurred. But with a well set up RAID, you mightn't have a failure that you need to recover from, in the first place; presuming we're talking about random drive failures, rather than someone doing something stupid on the computer. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
