What backup method(s) do you use?

[Mike McCarty]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I took a quick look at the docs on 'dump' it seems to say that it is
>>> for ext3 file systems no? If so, how do you dump to smb server on
>>
>>
>> No. The dump command dumps any UNIX like file system, any file system
>> based on inodes. The one shipped with Linux is the GNU/Free Software
>> Foundation dump, which apparently can only dump ext2/ext3 file systems.
> 
> 
> It would probably be more accurate to say that most filesystems have a 
> "dump" program that supports them.  "The" dump command on Linux only 
> supports ext2/3.  ReiserFS, for example, has no dump command at all. XFS 
> uses "xfsdump", which isn't packaged in FC5.

Well, since you want to pick nits, "Linux" has no "dump" at all,
since it's just a kernel. So you're wrong.

As I said, the one which ships with Fedora Core is the GNU/Free
Software Foundation dump which supports ext2 and ext3, and this
is accurate.

GNU is not Linux.

Mike
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