On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 10:09, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:48, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Are these all features of ext3? If so, wouldn't dump do the job? > > > > Well, it's not quite the same thing. You can't safely dump a live > > filesystem, making it unusable for me. Also it's far less granular than > > an archiver like tar or dar. > > LVM snapshots will allow dump to be used on live file systems. > > Dump does not work across file systems, so if you want to convert an Ext3 file > system to ReiserFS or XFS then dump will not help. > > Dump is tied to Inode numbers and I believe that this has some implications > for restoring deleted files if the machine has continued operation and > created other files with the same Inode numbers. > > We do need a better backup solution, a friend investigated backups some time > ago (without regard to SE Linux) and reached the conclusion that extending > "dar" offered the best promise of all the Linux backup options. So dar may > be worth considering. > Has anyone looked into bacula's ability to store extended attributes? Does it have any? -sv
