Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> If I have two equal partitions and I make my initial >> image doing a dump on the first and piping it into a restore one the >> second. Then at later intervals do an incremental dump on the first >> piping it again into a restore on the second, will it just do the >> most >> efficient thing (i.e. handle renames as only a change to the >> directories involved)? > > Yes, it will deal with renames without copying over the new file > contents. But if any of the file has changed, it will copy the whole > new file, not just the modified blocks. > > --Stephen I've never used dump/restore. After the initial dump|restore from one partition to the next, would a subsequent local rsync be slower than a subsequent dump|restore action? I don't understand how dump "looks" at the destination partition (like rsync would do for a target) and decides not to bother "dumping" that particular inode. -Eric Wood _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
