well, when using a non-standard filesystem like jfs on linux, i don't think you have much choice but to use gtar, which doesn't depend on the filesystem used.
but anyone, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about this.. -rodi. On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:28, John Bossert wrote: > Gtar works fine (and I use it for my Dailies.) > > Here, I'm trying to establish a "bare metal" restore process. With > Solaris, if _really bad things_ happen, I can take my ufs dumps and > rebuild a machine fairly directly. > > Is the "best practice" in the Debian world to just use gtar for this? > > How do others manage this? Thx. > > -john > > R.M. Evers wrote: > > > john, > > > > you say gtar and dump work on the sun boxes, but only state that dump > > fails on the debian boxes (which is probably correct, since it only > > dumps ext2 filesystems). did you try gtar? it should work.. :-) > > > > regards, > > -rodi. > > > > > > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 17:07, John Bossert wrote: > > > >>Adding a pair of Debian(woody) clients to a Solaris shop... Amanda is > >>working just fine with both gtar and dump on the Sun boxes. > >> > >>Trying to dump filesystems, failed. Discovered that there's no "dump" > >>on the debian boxes... > >> > >>All the filesystems are jfs, yet the "dump" package I find at debian.org > >>(0.4b27-4) appears oriented towards ext2. > >> > >>What package do I want to install on these clients to play nice with > >>Amanda? Thx.
