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).
