backups

[Colin Walters]

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 17:39 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:20 PM -0400 Colin Walters 
> <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > One particular feature that I absolutely need is xattr support, because
> > all my machines run SELinux.  My personal server also uses ACLs for a
> > few files.
> 
> 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.

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