On 07/27/2014 07:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:33 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
Can anyone who has had a chance to work with 7 tell me
if "dump" and "restore" work with the new XFS file system?
-T
Why would you *want* that? Seriously? When backups of files, rather
than filesystems, are much more easily mirrored onto a read-only,
accessible target to allow people to recover their deleted files
quickly and cheaply?
Even if you need to back up to tape, AMANDA and half a dozen other
technologies do a much better job with "tar" or "rsync" based backups.
Hi Nico,
1) It is *insanely* fast
2) it is command line
3) I am the one that does the recovering, not the user.
(I leave the backup drives unmounted when not on use
on purpose! I do not want the user anywhere near
those drives.)
4) I am able to back up 100% of my drive and reinstall
100% of it.
I have had to reinstall twice when Old-Out-Of-Date had
an out-of-date kernel that wiped my hard drive TWICE
when I tried to cut a DVD. (Our intrepid heroes at
Red Hat fixed it for me. Try to get that kind of service
from M$!)
I have notes on how to restore the whole potato with
"restore" that I will share with anyone the needs it --
just ping me in the subject line.
-T
Did I mention that it is *insanely* fast?
