backups
Colin Walters
walters at redhat.com
Mon Sep 20 15:26:59 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 00:09 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> LVM snapshots will allow dump to be used on live file systems.
Ok, LVM snapshots help a lot, although as I mentioned elsewhere I think
we probably still need an archiver.
> We do need a better backup solution, a friend investigated backups some time
> ago (without regard to SE Linux) and reached the conclusion that extending
> "dar" offered the best promise of all the Linux backup options. So dar may
> be worth considering.
Ok. I actually investigated dar a bit more closely last night and found
that it needs to be patched to support the "security" xattr namespace.
Also we will need a patch to make it use setfscreatecon like the star
SELinux patch does.
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