On Sun, 12 May 2002, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 2. dump/restore are generic names for a type of backup and recovery pair
> of programs found on many unix systems. The dump/restore pair have to
> be specific for the "type" of file system they were written for.
>
> On linux "I think" you have programs named dump and restore. I do not,
> I have ufsdump and ufsrestore. UFS is the type of file system on Solaris.
> You might also have ext2dump or reiserfsdump. I could also have vxfsdump
> (veritas fs).
>
> If you are like me, and not using dump/restore, but using tar, tar is both
> your dump and your restore.
>
> 1. dd will recover the dump image. That could be a tar file or a dump file
> depending on your backup program.
Thank you (and the others) for the answers to my questions.
Now I have a question for Amanda developers: is there any plan for Amanda
to backup also on tape the backup index? I read about this feature on a
commercial page on BRU, so maybe it will be possible to add this feature
in Amanda too, smewhere in the future.
Ave,
Radu
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