On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:36:15AM +0200, Philippe Amelant wrote:
> le jeu 11-10-2001 à 17:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> > > I'm seting up to backup a Debina Linux machine that has ResierFS
> > > filesystems. Is there a version of dump for this? Or must I use Gnu tar?
> 
> Hi
> > 
> > Hans has said on a number of occasions that tar is the way to go.
> 
> is this true for all filesystem type ?
> 

at least for ext2:

Because of buffer handling changes in Linux 2.4 dump 
must not be used for ext2 filesystems. 

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