What backup method(s) do you use?
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Apr 28 00:48:49 UTC 2006
At 1:03 PM -0500 4/27/06, Mike McCarty wrote:
>Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Well, since you want to pick nits, "Linux" has no "dump" at all,
>since it's just a kernel. So you're wrong.
>
>As I said, the one which ships with Fedora Core is the GNU/Free
>Software Foundation dump which supports ext2 and ext3, and this
>is accurate.
>
>GNU is not Linux.
Looking at the dump manpage and at the project on Sourceforge, I don't see
the GNU project mentioned. There isn't a real info page, but rather a copy
of the man page. dump.sourceforge.net says. "This is the home page of the
Linux Ext2 filesystem dump/restore utilities." I'd say that dump is not a
GNU project
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