What backup method(s) do you use?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/20/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 4/19/06, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:31 AM -0700 Gordon Messmer
> >><yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>For machines with a larger set of users, dump is better.  It will
> >>>preserve atime *and* ctime, and will back up ACLs and attributes.
> >>
> >>That's what I use for my office machine. The dump is to a Samba-mounted
> >>Windows server.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I took a quick look at the docs on 'dump' it seems to say that it is
> > for ext3 file systems no? If so, how do you dump to smb server on
>
> No. The dump command dumps any UNIX like file system, any file system
> based on inodes. The one shipped with Linux is the GNU/Free Software
> Foundation dump, which apparently can only dump ext2/ext3 file systems.
> But dump has been around for a long long time.
>
> > windows, more importantly, how does it keep the ACLs? I guess i need
> > to readup further on dump.
>
> It doesn't dump files, it dumps file systems. It creates a sort of
> file system image. It's not like tar or cpio in this respect. Those two
> commands work with files, so they must "preserve" things. With dump,
> the entire file system state in respect to the specified files
> gets saved.
>
> Mike
> --

Thanks for clearing that up.

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