On 01Mar2010 21:30, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Jeff Metcalf wrote: | > <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | > Isn't dump(8) considered a filesystem based backup? Are you refering to something more specialized? | | Yes, it is. I suspect he meant a files based backup. With | dump, what one gets is a dump of the file system itself, | as opposed to the data it contains. With a files based | backup, one gets a copy of the data saved, but not the | file system. So, for example, using tar, or cpio, one can | back up a system using ext3, and recover to a system which | uses reiserfs. One cannot do that with dump and restore, | which store the file system itself. The dump and restore | work at a lower level than files based backup. I was pretty sure restore pulls "files" from the dump and writes to an arbitrary filesystem (eg xfs or reiser etc). Dump accesses the filesystem directly, but restore doesn't have that issue. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ SGI's are like F18's. SUN's are like F16's. Mac's are like Cessna 150's. PC's .... Well....PC's are like a bumble bee with only one wing. - Kip J. Mussatt <hampster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
