[CentOS] Help with dump/restore
Jeffrey Ross
jeff at bubble.org
Fri Dec 28 20:33:27 UTC 2007
Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Dec 28, 2007 10:16 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> drive. Dump tends to be unhappy if the filesystem changes during the
>> run, so you might be better off using tar. Also, some tape drives are
>>
>
> Note what Linus has to say on the topic here:
> http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
>
> Old post, still applies just as well today as it did then.
>
>
And the rebuttal to Linus' view on dump/restore
http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
However keep in mind, dump will only work on a ext2 or ext3 filesystem.
To restore the filesystem you have a few methods, if you want to restore
everything do the following:
cd /newfilesystem; restore rf /dev/{tapedevice}
Jeff
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