[Gllug] Sony AIT Tape

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:55, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:57:34PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 14:15, Stephen Harker wrote:
> > > Have a look at the dump and restore commands as well.
> > 
> > Using dump on a mouted file system is, errr, "brave", to say the least.
> 
> But sometimes necessary.

Yes. Linus does seem to have missed that point in his attitude to dump.

>  How else do you reliably back up a 1/4TB
> filesystem with a million subdirs on it over the network to an Amanda
> backup server?  On a 24/7 service?  FWIW I modified dump so that it
> worked mostly-reliably on a loaded live server under various
> assumptions about how you write to said server.
> 
> Linux really needs a way to do this properly ...

XFS + xfsdump.

Mike.


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