[geeks] Quick backup solution

Kevin kevin at pipeline.com
Mon Mar 31 01:28:56 CST 2003


Try xfsdump (for the xfs filesystems).  It can backup
the XFS ACLs whereas gnutar currently cannot.  I should
not expect it to be a problem over NFS but that's not
something i would know about anyway.

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/cmd_tars

/KRM

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 21:05:21 -0500
Andrew Weiss <ajwdsp at cloud9.net> wrote:

> I have created a directory on my FreeBSD fileserver
> and want to back up an entire Gentoo Linux hard disk
> (the laptop).  I've been told gnutar is advanced
> enough to do this, but I am wondering if that will
> cause issues over NFS.  I am using 3.0 so it is tcp. 
> Is rsync a better choice?  I'd love to have some
> compression too (after the backup is taken is fine). 
> Thoughts?
> 
> This is of course xfs and ext3 for /boot
> 
> Andrew
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