What backup method(s) do you use?

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sat Apr 22 01:47:26 UTC 2006


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>> I took a quick look at the docs on 'dump' it seems to say that it is
>> for ext3 file systems no? If so, how do you dump to smb server on
> 
> No. The dump command dumps any UNIX like file system, any file system
> based on inodes. The one shipped with Linux is the GNU/Free Software
> Foundation dump, which apparently can only dump ext2/ext3 file systems.

It would probably be more accurate to say that most filesystems have a 
"dump" program that supports them.  "The" dump command on Linux only 
supports ext2/3.  ReiserFS, for example, has no dump command at all. 
XFS uses "xfsdump", which isn't packaged in FC5.




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