Hi I have been following recent threads about the best way to clone/backup disks. "Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)" I have just tested dump/restore using a System Rescue CD using dump 0.4b42 The source /dev/sda7 is a fully working updated F12 / partition (including /boot) The destination is a similar partition on the same disk /dev/sda9 mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda9 mkdir /mnt/out mount /dev/sda9 /mnt/out dump 0f - /dev/sda7 | (cd /mnt/out; restore -rf -) 40GB dump/restore took 46 minutes I received 9 errors of the type resync restore, skipped 1 blocks error in EA block 1 magic = 0 Google tells me that dump saves as is and that restore is finding an error in an Attribute Block (maybe/sometimes associated with NFS) I have not been able to find definitive answers to some obvious questions. 1. Are these fatal for the file concerned hence invalidating the clone/backup? I am unsure how to interpret the error message 2. Why are they present in the first place? 3. How can I find which files they are caused by? 4. Can I correct the errors, do I need to? Grateful for any help Regards John -- 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
