On Thursday 15 December 2005 19:08, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >I am familiar with the unix dump and restore programs from my hey-dey >and system admin used these for backing up individual filesystems to > tape using these programs. But apparently, someone here told me that > using dump/restore is not the preferred way and said that Torvald > quoted that tar is better than D/R because it is not maintained nor > current and may be fraught with failures.... and recommended that > TAR be used. > >Geez.... > >Well since I have a /boot problem, i.e. I blithely used a partition > of /, including /boot and a seperate partition for swap (i.e. two > partitions) of which my BIOS may eventually fail to see /boot, so I > need to correct this mistake. But before I do, I need to backup my > main boot drive by copying its contents to my 2nd drive so that I > can recover if all hell breaks loose. > >So... > >When I used /tar this way: > >tar zcvf root.tgz -C /<second-disk> / > >It appears that everything gets tarred up but there are many errors >put out (such as sockets and such) but eventually after a long time, >the final error at the end (whereever that may be) reports: > >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > >Hmm... cryptic as heck. But the bottom line is that there is no >guarantee that all the files are being properly backed up. Seems >that this is very unreliable. > >Perhaps I should just use dump | restore to backup the filesystem >to another filesystem (disk) would be better? What is the > reccommended way to backup the root disk to my second backup disk? > >Thanks! >Dan > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.13.13/200 - Release Date: > 12/14/2005 Well, you could give rsync a try. I've been using it for about 3 years to keep a backup of the important stuff on my firewall box, to a dir on this box. It seems to get it all. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should use this address: <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
