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).
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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....
P.
