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@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:
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