Susemail wrote:
On Sunday 19 December 2004 02:53, Sid Boyce wrote:
Susemail wrote:
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Before I retired I was using rsync to backup many gig of data across a wan connection and also used the compression switch. Very good program. Also the trailing "/" is only needed on the source not the destination.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*
Which is better for backup dump or rsync? Jerome
From the man page, may be it does ext3 as well:- dump - ext2 filesystem backup If you use dump on reiserfs, you'll see some strange happenings, guaranteed, rsync and unison are filesystem agnostic and are easy to use. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
I was curious because an article in Sys Admin suggested dump is a great backup program, it never mentioned the filesystem limitations.
The first time I tried it was after reading an article. I couldn't
understand at first what was happening, then I noticed a message about
ext2 which prompted me to look at the manpage and worry that I may have
corrupted my filesystem, but it was OK, so I looked around and found
unison. You'll notice that dump is not installed on your system if you
have reiserfs filesystems only. I have a script (RSYNC) that I use on
all my 5 boxes for backup/restore and when I'm upgrading disks, after
fdisk, mkswap, mkreiserfs on the new HD, I rsync the current disk across
to the new one, then swap them over.
# o /usr/local/mybin/RSYNC
####rsync -avz --rsh=ssh <local directory>