[Gllug] Backup Software for Linux?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:43:38PM +0100, Martin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, April 7, 2004, David Irvine wrote:
> > I'm currently using dump, and mtx, with a LTO Overland Powerloader, the
> > result is pretty good.
> 
> Just as a cautionary note, it's not safe to use dump on many
> filesystem types when the filesystem is mounted read/write.  XFS and
> LVM are exceptions I think.
> 
> http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html

This is why snapshots (as provided by LVM, for example) are a great tool
to use with any backup solution.

-- 
Bruce

Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
everything you did to them on the way up.
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