On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:13:19PM +0330, Ali AlipourR wrote: > for file-level backups I found fsarchiver, dar, tar and for > file-system-level fsarchiver, clonezilla/partclone and dd appropriate > based on my requirements > (data integrity and confidentiality, mount and single-file-restoration > capabilities, btrfs and GPT support, ACL/Selinux preservation, xz > compression) You may also find rdiff-backup to be useful. It can verify data integrity (although not repair), will preserve permissions and extended attributes. I like it particularly because the latest backup is a straightforward mirror, making data recovery trivial. It doesn't, however, do compression or encryption. > Advantage of tar and dd is that they are available every where but I'm > mostly concerned about file integrity with tar > and dd copies all unused blocks of file system too (fsarchiver or > clonezilla/partclone will only copy file-system + MBR) One option for data integrity is to use par2create to make recovery blocks to store alongside your tar files. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org