On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 09:57:38AM +0100, Stevie Trujillo wrote: > Hello! > > Is xfsdump an ancient relic or something recommended to new users (I > have never seen anyone recommending it)? I gave it a try and found the > incremental backups to be really fast! Still supported, still works, still used in production by lots of people. > How are incremental backups implemented? I saw that my inventory file > is really small. Does it use some internal xfs metadata to detect > changes? Is it resilient against all kinda renames and changing > timestamps etc that a user might do? (I've previously used a backup > system that broke when doing stuff like that) It should detect renames and changing timestamps, etc. without any problems. > Is it possible to backup (and restore) ctimes? No. > I read that the incremental backups are limited to a depth of 10. Are > they intended to be used in a binary tree like fashion? In theory. Not sure anyone actually uses incremental dumps like that though, so you'd need to do a bunch of testing before deploying such a solution. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
