Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fBM3gDX30376 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:42:13 -0800 Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny-legacy.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.40]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBM3g9X30354 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:42:09 -0800 Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id fBM2g6ZM017608 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:42:06 +1100 (EST) Received: from jpc (ppp217.dyn225.pacific.net.au [203.100.225.217]) by wisma.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id NAA09416 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:42:05 +1100 (EST) Received: (from jason@localhost) by jpc (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id NAA01000; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:42:03 +1100 From: Jason White MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15395.62202.780294.614329@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:42:02 +1100 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: XFS and backup solutions X-Mailer: VM 6.76 under Emacs 20.7.2 Reply-To: Jason White Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I read a statement on SGI's XFS site to the effect that xfsdump, a high-performance backup program provided with XFS, currently provided support only for tape cartridges and did not work well with removable media. I have a CD-RW drive with which to perform backup, either of my entire file system or those parts of it which are important to preserve, such as the home directory. What backup tools/strategies do you recommend for use with XFS? Obviously, xfsdump has the advantage of preserving any ACLs and extended attributes that may exist, which would be lost by other tools. I also noticed that xfs_copy isn't ready for Linux yet. As this isn't necessarily an XFS issue, I would be willing to take the discussion elsewhere if list members don't consider this to be an appropriate forum.