Francesco Talamona wrote:
First of all, thanks for sharing.
I used to think xfs was overkill for /boot, but the procedure described
is quite straightforward.
There are two things I don't understand:
1) why do you delete xfsdump and xfsrestore in /xfsrestore/usr/bin/ just
extracted to link them to /xfsrestore/sbin
2) the use of df.out isn't clear to me, isn't the dump file name enough
to know what is in there?
1) The symlinks are broken if the package is extracted anywhere other
than /. I recreated 'em to point where they should (I recall they were
needed, as some of the ancillary programs break if they are missing or
broken).
2) The df.out is so you know that (say) usr.0.dmp should be restored to
a device called (say) /dev/sda6. This will avoid the need to edit
restored /etc/fstab (or the need to boot into single user mode and fix
it). the other point is if you are reusing the same disk setup (assuming
a software issue is requiring the restore), then checking df.out ensures
that you recover the system using the same partitions for the
filesystems as you had pre-restore.
Cheers
Mark
P.s: You are quite correct that xfs is overkill for /boot. However I
just found it easier to xfs everything (otherwise I'd have to use
different dump programs depending on what I was backing up etc... ). To
me this is more important than the fact that it wastes disk space a bit
(my /boot uses a 128M partition but only gets 93M to actually use...and
it uses 11M of that! - but disks are quite big now...)
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