On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 at 2:36pm, Matteo Centonza wrote > > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > > > Hmm, if I remember correctly, i've made subtree dump in the past with > > amanda. BTW there's that's from ext2fs dump manpage: > > > *snip* > > > > so it's possible (with some restrictions e.g. only full dumps). The same > > applies for xfsdump: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Yes, and that's the limitation. When amanda tries to do incrementals, it > will fail when dump tells it that it can't do that. So if you're only > doing full dumps, then dump is fine. But, for incrementals of > subdirectories, you *must* use tar.
Yes, only full dumps. BTW, if you have to backup things like extended attributes, quota information, ACLs etc. (ala xfsdump), tar "tout court" it's not a viable way. Bye, -m
