On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:37 -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > I noticed that this is still the case... but I want to use it :-) > > I need to set up simple snapshot/rsync backups of XFS filesystems, so > I'm wondering what the current thinking in the community is. Is it > reliable enough to trust not to crash my server or do other nasty things? > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ I've been doing my home backups via rsync to an xfs via cron, and using rsync from whatever (mostly ext3 and UFS) to ext3 for one-off backups prior to making large administrative changes to systems. It seems to be working well so far, and also seems to give a very nice combination of single-file recovery ease and disaster recovery ease, which isn't astonishingly common. It just maintains a series of hardlink trees, so any time a file is deleted or added, the actual disk usage increase is only due to the changes. And, every backup after the first is both a fullsave and an incremental in a sense - but the network usage is far, far less than your typical fullsave. http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/Backup.remote.html _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
