Hi, big question: What dump do you use to backup that raw device? linux-dump? and this device is used by infomix as a raw data-device without an ext2 filesystem on it? yes?
You won't be able to restore something meaningfull from this dumps at all. Linux dump is designed only for dumping ext2 filesystems. What you are trying is plainly asking for trouble at restore-time. To get a valid backup of your database backing up the raw device you will have to shut down the database-server-process before saving the data. (If you don't do that you will miss lots of data stored in the internal buffers of the process.) And then you need to take a raw image of the partition with a tool like dd. Neither any version of dump nor tar will give you a correct backup of this data. A much safer way will be to let informix make a database-export/ dump to another disk and then backup this dump. Christoph kh teoh schrieb:
Hi, I'm using amanda-2.4.3 running on Redhat 7.1(2.4.9). I managed to backup a raw device(/dev/sda13) using DUMP but how do I restore it ? That raw device is not mounted to any directory, it is reserved for Informix use. Thank you __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
