On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:08:53 -0500 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Nahmias) wrote:
> Chris, > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Linus himself said that using > dump on live (mounted) filesystems was a bad idea. I'll see if I can > dig up a reference to it... > > Thanks for your help! > Joe > > > Chris Lale wrote: > > > Incremental daily backup: > > > dump -3u -z -M -B 650000 -f /bkp/home/monday.dump /home > > > > Whoops! that should be -9 not -3: > > dump -9u -z -M -B 650000 -f /bkp/home/daily.dump /home > > >From the top of the "cdbackup" man page: DESCRIPTION cdbackup is a utility to make streaming backups to CD-R(W) disks. It's designed to work with any backup tool which writes the backup to stdout (like tar/cpio/afio). NOTE: this program REQUIRES that a recent version of cdrecord(1) is present in the PATH. WARNING! When using this program under Linux, be sure not to use dump on a mounted filesystem. This has a high potential for creating corrupted backups. As of kernel version 2.4.19, this has not been fixed and it may not be fixed at all. You can read Linus statement about this at <http://search.alphanet.ch/cgi-bin/search.cgi?max_results=10&type=long&; [EMAIL PROTECTED]&do main=ml-linux-kernel> G -- Configure your Email to send TEXT ONLY -- See the following page: http://expita.com/nomime.html gvl2 (Gerald) AirBall the Rolling Basket Case (1969 Standard Beetle) LifeSaver (1974 Bay Window Bus) http://www.phorce1.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
