dump and ext3

[Malcolm Kay]

On Thursday 01 July 2004 00:25, you wrote:
> Coming from a BSD background I've recently installed RH9
> on a couple of machines and now want to make backups.
>
> However I find that the default installation results in
> ext3 file systems but the man pages tell me that dump
> and restore are for ext2 systems.
>
> Where can I obtain dump and restore for ext3?
>
> Malcolm

Thanks to
  Stuart Sears
  Alexey Fadyushin
  Jyce
  Ad Wilts
for responses to my enquiry.

>From these I gather dump might work sometimes but is generally
messy and unreliable.

I would have expected that backup would be have been a stable
and core part of any system.

I must say your responses have left me in something of a 
quandary. While one might set up some exotic backup mechanism
it is not really very convenient to have to treat 2 linux 
machines in a network of 25 or so as special cases.

Which brings up another issue. Under linux can I create and 
mount a file system within a file on an existing file system
rather than on a separate disk partition? This would allow me 
to at least try a restore operation using the space available 
in the current file system.

Thanks again,

Malcolm