On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Derek Martin wrote: =>--[PinePGP]--------------------------------------------------[begin]-- =>On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 12:32:47PM -0500, Marc Evans wrote: =>> So, when performing a backup of a filesystem (ext2 or ext3) which has =>> these attributes, it seems that none of the tools that I have been able to =>> identify actually backup file attributes. => =>If you use dump on Linux to back up an extX filesystem, I believe it =>will back up and restore said attributes. I'm not really sure about =>that though. But, you should be aware that even if it does work, =>Linus considers dump deprecated.
Only dump level 0 will do that. Incremental dump will only back up file contents. The upshot of it is that if you do a full restore from dump 0, the actual numbers of the inodes will be identical. :-) I used to be a big fan of dump, but then I started to mix different filesystemson my 'puter. I had ext2, reiser and ext3 (at one point) all mouned at once. Dump is very ext2 specific (as fas as Linux is concerned). I never was able to get a straight answer as to whether dump is legal on ext3. (I'm *not* going to assume it.) -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? -steveo+sig at syslang.net _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
