On 2017-10-09 10:44, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > Hi. > > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 02:43:43PM +0000, Luciano ES wrote: ... > Regarding the "restore everything and expect the system to boot", I think you > are forgetting a few things here: > > 1 - xfsdump will backup the filesystem, not the device, so, MBR for > example is not backed up The MBR is outside of the device holding the XFS filesystem, if by device you mean something like /dev/sdXY. Another question would be the BR. > 2 - Is a bad idea to try to backup /dev for several reasons, like device > names can change. On some distros /dev is populated dynamically. For instance, on openSUSE, it is a tmpfs, so there is no purpose on backing it. It actually does not exist on the root disk, so the xfs tools will not see it either, only the mount point. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
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