On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 19:59 -0600, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 18:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Just use tar. Dump/restore is designed for fast backup and restoring > > of > > filesystem images. Among other things, this ties you to a specific > > filesystem type and partition size. Tar is more flexible and doesn't > > care what the filesystem is (within reason). > > One of the reasons I have used dump for this process is that if I run > into something unexpected and all I want to do is get back to where I > was, I can put things back as closely as possible. I realize I can get > all the data back with tar also. But, dump has the inode numbers and > file system specific details in it as well and I think a restore -r may > even preserve the inodes, though I don't know for sure. So, generally I > like to use dump to handle the catastrophic situation. That's all very well, but your question wasn't about backup, it was about upgrading Fedora versions. Different scenario, different failure modes. Note that you can also dump the fs and then use tar for the transfer, if you feel nervous about losing anything. poc -- 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
