On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 18:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just use tar. Dump/restore is designed for fast backup and restoring > of > filesystem images. Among other things, this ties you to a specific > filesystem type and partition size. Tar is more flexible and doesn't > care what the filesystem is (within reason). One of the reasons I have used dump for this process is that if I run into something unexpected and all I want to do is get back to where I was, I can put things back as closely as possible. I realize I can get all the data back with tar also. But, dump has the inode numbers and file system specific details in it as well and I think a restore -r may even preserve the inodes, though I don't know for sure. So, generally I like to use dump to handle the catastrophic situation. After some more poking around seems dump has a problem at the moment but the expectation is it will work with ext4 at some time. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511651 I may stick with ext3 for now when I upgrade and then once dump gets sorted out I'll consider moving up to ext 4. I am not even sure what the difference is for now, I'll do some more research on ext4 before committing to it. Thanks Chris Kottaridis -- 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
