On Thursday 01 July 2004 00:25, you wrote: > Coming from a BSD background I've recently installed RH9 > on a couple of machines and now want to make backups. > > However I find that the default installation results in > ext3 file systems but the man pages tell me that dump > and restore are for ext2 systems. > > Where can I obtain dump and restore for ext3? > > Malcolm Thanks to Stuart Sears Alexey Fadyushin Jyce Ad Wilts for responses to my enquiry. >From these I gather dump might work sometimes but is generally messy and unreliable. I would have expected that backup would be have been a stable and core part of any system. I must say your responses have left me in something of a quandary. While one might set up some exotic backup mechanism it is not really very convenient to have to treat 2 linux machines in a network of 25 or so as special cases. Which brings up another issue. Under linux can I create and mount a file system within a file on an existing file system rather than on a separate disk partition? This would allow me to at least try a restore operation using the space available in the current file system. Thanks again, Malcolm -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
