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Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> Yes, please. |
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> I'm not completely new to dump, but I'd like to read about a complete |
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> dump-backup solution. |
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> Ciao |
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> Francesco |
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Well - its not complete by any stretch of the imagination... but the |
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attached (hopefully not striped off by the mailing list software) is a |
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very brief discussion of how to do a minimal backup/restore using |
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xfsdump. Note that user data is *not* explicitly covered - even tho |
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there is no reason it cannot be backed up this way too! In addition it |
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does not cover incremental or cumulative backup variations - again no |
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reason why this cannot be used, but for a quick and simple *system* |
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restore, I find using only full (i.e level 0) dumps helps avoid admin |
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(i.e me making) mistakes. |
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It's worth noting that the essential logic is simply: |
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- dump system filesystems |
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- save xfsrestore binaries as a package |
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- boot livecd |
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- install xfsrestore binaries somewhere |
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- restore dumps |
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