Journals make the problem far worse. On restore you will restore a journal log no longer related to whats on the media, then risk replaying it and causing further damage. Block reallocation is also nasty with a dump done that way because you may end up with undetected data corruption including leaks of data between uids. A file system based backup is a good deal safer. You should also know if it works or not. Sct (one of the ext2 designers) always said there were three approaches to backups - "I ought to do it" (people who've not had a catastrophic failure) - "We back it up" (people who've not had a catastrophic restore failure) - "We back it up and test the backup/restore process regularly" (battle scarred veterans) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
