On Friday 02 December 2005 08:33, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:46:57AM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote: >> Ram Krishnamurthy wrote: >> >Hi Jehan >> >What do you mean by >> > >> >> Since then, I fsck.ext3 -f the /var partition which caused me the >> >> problems, it works fine now (last 3 days) , >> > >> >What works fine? The restore? Are you not seeing the file corruption >> >anymore? >> >> Yes the restore worked fine, but maybe it's not due to the fact that >> I run fsck, but only because since those last 3 days, nobody was >> manipulating the files while they were dumped !? >> Someone else on this list (Paul Bijnens) told me that it is most >> certainly due to that fact that I use dump to backup that partition , >> and if you read that : >> http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html >> it could be a good explanation . so do you confirm that I should move >> to : >> >> define dumptype root-tar { >> global >> program "GNUTAR" >> comment "root partitions dumped with tar" >> >> >> Anyway, if you have other suggestion , I'll appreciate, because today >> my only solution is to move that backup from dump to tar . But will >> this solve definitly my problem, will tar create other ones ? which >> (tar/dump or soething else) is best finally ? > >You really think there is a "universal best"? Tar has its own problems >including increased time of backup and inability to handle some > extended types of file attributes. > >Do your client OS/filesystem combos support ext3 snapshots? >Some recent ones do? If so, you could set things up to make a >snapshot just before the amdump, use dump on that non-changing >snapshot, then delete the snapshot after the dump.
Someone reported here, a month or so back, that Jorg Schillings 'Star' also worked with amanda, and I know its supposed to properly handle that stuff, just never got a round tuit to try it with. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.36% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.