Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Ray Curtis wrote: ms == Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ms On 2 Jul 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:45, Ray Curtis wrote: Yes, Amanda will make very reliable backups on your network, and yes dump is broken.

Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-03 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 22:25, Ray Curtis wrote: ms == Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ms On 2 Jul 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:45, Ray Curtis wrote: Yes, Amanda will make very reliable backups on your network, and yes dump is

Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 06:46, Matthew Saltzman wrote: I'll probably stick with tar, though I understand it's slower. Is Gordon's comment about extended FS attributes a reference to non-ext2 FS's? Are there other disadvantages to using tar with Amanda? Specifically, I was referring to XFS

Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
I am looking at instituting Amanda-based backups on a small network. Amanda uses dump to actually back up the files. I've seen various references to problems with the reliability of dump with kernel 2.4 and/or ext3. For example, I'ver heard tell that Linus says that dump in kernel 2.4 is badly

Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-02 Thread Ray Curtis
ms == Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ms I am looking at instituting Amanda-based backups on a small network. ms Amanda uses dump to actually back up the files. I've seen various ms references to problems with the reliability of dump with kernel 2.4 and/or ms ext3.

Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:45, Ray Curtis wrote: Yes, Amanda will make very reliable backups on your network, and yes dump is broken. However Amanda being the very powerful system it is, look to tar, cpio as alternatives. Bitch is that filesystems with extended attributes need to be backed

Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-02 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On 2 Jul 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:45, Ray Curtis wrote: Yes, Amanda will make very reliable backups on your network, and yes dump is broken. However Amanda being the very powerful system it is, look to tar, cpio as alternatives. Bitch is that filesystems

Re: Amanda, dump, kernel 2.4, ext3, uncertainty

2002-07-02 Thread Ray Curtis
ms == Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ms On 2 Jul 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:45, Ray Curtis wrote: Yes, Amanda will make very reliable backups on your network, and yes dump is broken. However Amanda being the very powerful