> On Nov 18, 2020, at 3:27 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS <centos@centos.org>
> wrote:
>
> I'd agree with you John. I'm trying to get away from Amanda's
> unpredictability and go back to using scripts to drive dump (for ext2/3/4)
> and xfsdump (for xfs).
>
There is enterprise class open source backup software worth mentioning: bareos
(and bacula which it forked from). I use them for over a decade, bacula first,
then I switched over to bareos. I back up using bareos UNIXes (FreeBSD),
Linuxes (CentOS), MS Windows.
Valeri
> Is there any easy way to tell rear to include xfsdump and dump capability?
> If the commands are there then its trivial to restore data.
>
> What I've done in the past is before the nightly backup write a small file to
> the root of each filesystem giving disk geometries. You can then use any
> recovery DVD to partition and reload the OS. If rear can do this for me it
> would be __much__ neater!
>
> On 18/11/2020 08:24, John Pierce wrote:
>> I'm old school, but I always liked using dump/restore on unix file
>> systems. e2dump or whatever for linux, zfs send/recieve for zfs, ufsdump
>> on freebsd ufs, etc etc.
>> then I just need to know what file systems they are, and where they should
>> be mounted, and its trivial to set tha tup on new hardware.
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