Re: Dump and Restore Utility

2009-01-30 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:23:42PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Martin McCormick wrote: > > Nicolas KOWALSKI writes: > >> Yes, dump is working well with ext3 filesystems, as long as they > >> are not actively modified. LVM may come to help here. > > > > Many thanks. That is a problem more o

Re: Dump and Restore Utility

2009-01-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin McCormick wrote: > Nicolas KOWALSKI writes: >> Yes, dump is working well with ext3 filesystems, as long as they >> are not actively modified. LVM may come to help here. > > Many thanks. That is a problem more or less with any backup method > th

Re: Dump and Restore Utility

2009-01-29 Thread Martin McCormick
Nicolas KOWALSKI writes: > Yes, dump is working well with ext3 filesystems, as long as they are not > actively modified. LVM may come to help here. Many thanks. That is a problem more or less with any backup method that doesn't unmount and convert to read-only a given file system.

Re: Dump and Restore Utility

2009-01-29 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Martin McCormick wrote: > While looking on dselect, I saw there is a port of the BSD > package of dump and restore but it says it is for the ext2 file > system. Is there a Linux dump and restore utility anywhere that > is safe to use with ext3? Yes, dump is worki

Dump and Restore Utility

2009-01-29 Thread Martin McCormick
While looking on dselect, I saw there is a port of the BSD package of dump and restore but it says it is for the ext2 file system. Is there a Linux dump and restore utility anywhere that is safe to use with ext3? The issue is that we have a mixed Unix environment. There is a number of