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.