On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 04:38:34PM +0000, Ian Thurlbeck wrote:
>
> Dear All
>
> how do people back up their RAID arrays? I have a DDS-4 tape waiting
> to receive my files but the standard "dump" program doesn't like the
> raid device /dev/md0:
>
> root # /sbin/dump -0f myserver:/dev/rmt/0h /dev/md0
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Nov 1 16:34:13 2000
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/) to /dev/rmt/0h on host myserver
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> /dev/hda1: Ext2 inode is not a directory while mapping files in dev/md0
>
Don't use older versions of dump! There are serious restore problems
with older versions.
Mine says dump 0.4b19 and has no problems with /dev/md0
> I assume I need a more suitable dump program. I don't want to use find/tar
> because I like the interactive restore facility dump provides.
>
I am using Amanda with tar for all filesystems. This has been very reliable
and with amrecover you can do partial restores quite nicely. Amanda
also takes care of using GNUtar new incremental format to provide
reliable incremental backups.
Ciao
Dietmar
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