backups

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Mon Sep 20 03:32:27 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:09 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:48 PM -0400 Colin Walters 
> <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well, it's not quite the same thing.  You can't safely dump a live
> > filesystem, making it unusable for me.
> 
> An explanation of the issue and why it not be an issue, depending on the 
> situation:
> 
> <http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html>

If Linus says a program will eat my data and is generally stupid, I tend
to believe him :)

> > Also it's far less granular than an archiver like tar or dar.
> 
> It sounded like you were doing filesystem-level backups (including 
> incrementals), not archives of isolated directory trees. Dump is very good 
> for that.

Not really - I'm only interested in backing up a few things like home
directories, web sites, and possibly /etc.  Right now I just have one
big partition so dump would back up e.g. all of /usr, which isn't needed
for me.  Also, dump's filesystem-specific nature is very annoying.
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