On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:14:48AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > ? Ad Wilts s/A/E >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. It is. Just because dump doesn't work doesn't mean that backups aren't stable. dump is just a distributor-supplied utility. > 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. There are many other reliable backup tools. We use NetBackup at work. Other people use a lot of different utilities. Red Hat Linux ships with amanda. > 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. Look at mount --bind. I think this does what I think you want. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
