On 14/04/2011 20:17, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
Mike:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 08:36:00PM +0100, Mike Scott wrote:
On 13/04/11 20:29, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
Hello
I have used "dump" and "restore" to perform system backups for many years.
Since upgrading to Debian 6.x, I have not been able to obtain consistent and
reliable dumps for the following reason:
....
I look forward to your analysis and recommendation.
I would recommend asking in a Debian support group. This mailing
list is for Openoffice.org support.
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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
Thanks for the reply.
I sent this to the "bug" list, but as it wasn't actually a "bug", I was
advised to send it to this list.
Can't imagine why anyone would advise sending a debian support issue to
an openoffice mail list!
I'll try another avenue.
I did have a bit of a hunt round on google. Seems you're not alone, and
one or two others have raised the problem, to which I found no solution.
I have to confess I'd missed the issue - I did notice my ubuntu tended
to swap disk device names around for no obvious reason, and hadn't
realised the ramifications for dump (my comments in another thread here
about backing up notwithstanding, I've never dumped the machine in
question).
If you're into shell script hackery, you could perhaps run dump, and
immediately generate a new dumpdates-by-uuid file; before the next dump
or restore, do the reverse using the current device <=> uuid mapping.
There are a couple [at least!] of pitfalls here.
Anyway, this is well OT for this list, so I'll wish you luck!
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Mike Scott
Harlow, Essex, England
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