On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Keyser Soze wrote: =>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> I would enormously discourage you from using dd as a backup tool. The =>> result of doing that would be something that would contain all blocks in a =>> filesystem, regardless of whether thay are allocated or not. And a restore =>> operation would only (almost) work on the original drive that the backup =>> came from. And you couldn't do a restore of a single file, only the whole =>> filesystem. And there's no way to query the backup for content. And you =>> wouldn't be able to restore on a system that didn't support ext2. =>> =>> Common utilities are based on VFS. That's what makes them so common. => => => =>You are correct in the fact that dd copies all of the blocks in the =>filesystem(gzip fixes this problem) and that you cannot restore onto a =>different filesystem type. => =>But you are incorrect with everything else. You can query the backup for =>content, you can restore single files, and you don't have to restore onto =>the same disk - as long as the replacement disk of equal or greater size. =>I do these three things all the time with dd. Let me know if you want to =>see how.
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