backups

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Mon Sep 20 05:14:56 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 21:32, Colin Walters wrote:
> 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 :)

"In the future, dump's problems will be solved by snapshots."

The future is now, eh?

> > > 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.  

This is no longer accurate. You can use dump to backup selected
directories. You don't have to backup the entire fs.

Dax Kelson






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