[nflug] Centos Backup Best Practices

[Christopher Hawkins]

Also, I see that 'rsync -X' will copy extended attributes and is supposed to
work fine with selinux, but -X is not supported in the version of rsync that
I have on my stock Centos 4 box. Probably you would have to compile your
own. 

Chris 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of Erek Dyskant
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:46 PM
> To: nflug
> Subject: [nflug] Centos Backup Best Practices
> 
> Howdy All,
> 	I've been using rsnapshot (an rsync-based backup 
> script) for backing up CentOS servers, and was very happy 
> with it.  It does efficient backups that use native 
> filesystem targets, so it's easy to restore specific files, however:
> 	I just ran a full restore dress rehearsal, and found 
> that rsync doesn't copy selinux contexts, so I had to disable 
> selinux on the restored machine before it would boot.
> 	So, does any of you know of a good backup tool that can 
> do network-based incremental backups, and that backs up all 
> of the filesystem metadata?  Another requirement is that 
> there need to be tools to access specific files or 
> directories (If it doesn't use the native target's filesystem 
> like rsnapshot does) from any of the snapshots without doing 
> a full restore.
> 	Thanks for the help.
> 
> Cheers,
> Erek
> 
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