Dear
I have a server with an XFS volume, and is required to enable snapshot or a snapshot-like kind of backup on it.
The volume has to stays as XFS or ext3 , can't be brtfs nor zfs
Is there's a way or a 3rd party tool that can sync/backup in a snapshot-like manner ?
Any advice is appreciated
Snapshots on XFS
Re: Snapshots on XFS
You could do a web search with these keywords: rsync snapshot
I haven't used it, but you could try rsnapshot which can be installed with yum install rsnapshot after installing the epel repo.
I haven't used it, but you could try rsnapshot which can be installed with yum install rsnapshot after installing the epel repo.
Re: Snapshots on XFS
Is your xfs filesystem on an LVM Logical Volume?
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke
Re: Snapshots on XFS
For around 19 years I looked after systems using XFS, first under IRIX, then under Linux. To be honest, we never bothered with snapshots, running xfsdump (and sometimes xfsrestore) performed well. We used a pretty standard (if old fashioned) scheme: L0 every four Wednesdays, other Wednesdays were L1, L2 and L3. Thursday through Tuesday were L4-L9. The MySQL database was dumped to a text file in advance of the main backup. Your milage may vary though, and if you are sure you need to use snapshots have a look at https://n2ws.com/blog/how-to-guides/con ... em-and-ebs. See also https://access.redhat.com/documentation ... kuprestore.