On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Keyser Soze wrote: =>You can use the dd command whenever a filesystem backup is necessary. It =>can't perform incremental backups like the dump command, but it does =>preserve all attributes, even the immutable attr.
I would enormously discourage you from using dd as a backup tool. The result of doing that would be something that would contain all blocks in a filesystem, regardless of whether thay are allocated or not. And a restore operation would only (almost) work on the original drive that the backup came from. And you couldn't do a restore of a single file, only the whole filesystem. And there's no way to query the backup for content. And you wouldn't be able to restore on a system that didn't support ext2. Common utilities are based on VFS. That's what makes them so common. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? -steveo+sig at syslang.net _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
