On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 at 5:03pm, Jenn Sturm wrote > That should read "Now I've got a successful backup of the IRIX box, > but when I try to restore on the Linux host,..." > As everyone has pointed out dump/restore are fs specific, and restore on Linux won't read an xfsdump image. Going with tar is one option. However, if you're using ACLs or any other advanced XFS features, tar won't back those up.
One option for being able to restore files from the IRIX box on the Linux tape server is to install xfsdump/xfsrestore on your Linux tape server. SGI has ported them to Linux. You wouldn't even need to install a patched kernel (with XFS filesystem support) if all you want to do is run xfsrestore. Just install (RPMs available) xfsdump, recompile amanda, and you're off and running. Of course, this way you'll *still* be losing ACL information. To get everything back, run amrecover on the Irix client, which will automatically use the xfsrestore available on the SGI box. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
