Re: Dumping live filesystems on Linux 2.4 -> Corruption

2001-05-11 Thread Jonathan Dill
"C. Chan" wrote: > I'm experimenting with XFS now and if I run into any glitches > I'll let the Amanda list know. I'd like know how to tell Amanda > to use xfsdump rather than GNU tar on XFS partitions. I think you would have to recompile amanda. I would install xfsdump/xfsrestore and "rpm -e du

Re: Dumping live filesystems on Linux 2.4 -> Corruption

2001-05-11 Thread John R. Jackson
>... I'd like know how to tell Amanda >to use xfsdump rather than GNU tar on XFS partitions. Doesn't just setting "program" to "DUMP" in the dumptype do this? Amanda should auto-detect the file system type and run the correct dump program (assuming it found it when you ran ./configure). For inst

Re: Dumping live filesystems on Linux 2.4 -> Corruption

2001-05-11 Thread C. Chan
Also Sprach Brian J. Murrell: > I am sure everybody has seen this: > > http://www.lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3 > > It would seem that one can no longer use dump (assuming one is using > Linux 2.4) to backup live filesystems. So is everybody here now using > gnutar to backup filesystems on Lin

Dumping live filesystems on Linux 2.4 -> Corruption

2001-05-11 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I am sure everybody has seen this: http://www.lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3 It would seem that one can no longer use dump (assuming one is using Linux 2.4) to backup live filesystems. So is everybody here now using gnutar to backup filesystems on Linux 2.4? Is there any loss of functionality t