Re: Linux Backup : Wie ?

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From: Ernst-Udo Wallenborn
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:00

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Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch> writes:

> Ernst-Udo Wallenborn <wallenborn@phys.chem.ethz.ch> wrote:
> > disk. Every external program needed by the restore program needs
> > to be installed first, and is therefore a potential point of failure.
> 
> My boot floppy has mke2fs, fdisk, tar and tt.

that'll do. how do you select the files to backup with tar? 
exclude-file? what's in it? How do make the backup itself?
homegrown script? 1000-character One-liner?

> I don't like dump/restore:
>    - needs similar disk (I think)
>    - Linux dump cannot be read on Solaris, and back

That's a valid point. You also don't want to use a raw format
which may be subject to change. tar on a common file system 
is quite safe in that respect.

>    - Linux dumpe2fs in the past has had races regarding open files

-- 
Ernst-Udo Wallenborn
Laboratorium fuer Physikalische Chemie
ETH Zuerich

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