Linux Backup Administration

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Mike McCarty wrote:

>>
>> man man
>> man dump
>> man restore
>>
>> works great with DVD-RAM cartridges.
>>  
>>
> Backup is still something of a mystery to me.   
> Hmm. I know how to use man. The documentation for dump does
> not tell me what files *nix needs saved. I suppose one could
> dump to a file, and use split to break it into CD size pieces, and 
> XCDROAST
> them. What is a DVD-RAM cartridge?
>
> I suppose that Fedora has some special areas that need attendance, as 
> well,
> over and above what a generic *nix installation needs.
>
> Mike
>
I'd avoid to use dump/restore.. Use tar + gzip or tar + bz2. You'll get 
good compression rates and all permissions will be kept.
If you use dump , you're copying *everything* from the disk, including 
the data structures used to store the data and permissions on disk, 
which is a waste of space.

And I think he meant DVD-RAM disc? Because my DVD burner works with 
DVD-RAM and it is a disc like any DVD, except that it's golden and works 
pretty much like a big UDF filesystem (like those packet writing apps 
that windows used on CD-RW)

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Pedro Macedo