[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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