-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich Rauenzahn wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> Holger Parplies wrote: >> >>> Your best options remain to either do a block level copy of the file system >>> (dd) or to start over. >>> >> One suggestion I've heard on this list before, which may be a good one >> for you, is to simply start over with a new pool but save the existing >> pool for a few weeks/months/years. Then if you never need to restore a >> backup from the old pool, you will have saved yourself a lot of effort. >> >> > > Yet another option often overlooked is using 'dump' instead of dd. > dump - ext2/3 filesystem backup
Which only works for ext2/ext3 filesystem formats.... I assume there are probably similar dump commands for some other filesystem formats under other OS's.... BTW, is there any advantage to using dump instead of dd? ie, does it produce less data than dd, or anything? (Not copying blank space/etc)... Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFImlZ4GyoxogrTyiURAu0/AKCXX8JGnUSJM0WZGqs13YBw56hgRgCgghet XMX8GpAnBF/9waTiWSSzhbQ= =LwCv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
