On Thursday 19 August 2004 22:04, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: ..... > I use CPIO on all my systems, it whines about missing files, > etc, but does not abort. > Sounds good -- but I might have been too hasty in my criticism of 'tar'. See my follow up e-mail. > You could use DD if you want something "dump" like. Seeme to me that this must have all the problems espoused for 'dump' on Linux plus a raft of its own. In my inexperienced days I used 'dd' to clone a system and while it sort-of worked it exhibited the problems you mentioned. But above all it was a very slow way to go -- you end up cloning even the empty parts of the drive. Now I clone unix systems (not Linux) using 'dump' and 'restore' with both drives mounted in the same machine. A little scripting takes care of partitioning the new drive, changing hostname, IP address and one or two other trivia. > But I stay away from dump and DD because it is a lot harder > to recover a system if the replacement > drive has a different geometry, etc as they are disk image > copies. You also have to fsck the filesystem > because it will be out of synch especially in your > environment where I/O is continuing to the drives > while backups are underway. So they really wont guarantee a > stable backup in your environment. > Thanks for your comments Malcolm Kay -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
