[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> Maybe I am wrong, but that's my reason for asking.
>Ok, I just didn't understand you. I've only been able
>to use ufsdump/ufsrestore on Solaris, I don't have
>access to a Linux machine with a tape drive yet.
>Well, no dump/restore on 2.4, that's terrible news!
>What do people do?
I don't know what others do. We have most of our data on XFS, but we use amanda with
tar (amanda can use dump and xfsdump), since amanda can't span tapes, and most of
our file systems are bigger than our tapes. Thus the motivation to get amanda into
the distro.
>You know though, I recommended dump/restore to a
>friend and haven't heard any complaints. I should ask
>him if he's actually got it going.
Ummm, apparently the problem comes in with a restore. The dump *works* just fine,
but since the kernel does aggressive caching, there's no guarantee that the on-disk
data is what the kernel is using. Of course, journalling FSs would recover their log
, but I think the problem is that dump doesn't have a way of backing up the journal.
I guess having working backups of most of yuor FS could help, but I don't really
want to experiment ;-)
Anyway, maybe updated dump/restore would help those running 2.2.
Anyone else know more on this issue?
