This is true, dump really only works on ext2 and ext3 file systems. Mike Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 9/21/06, Mike Noble <mgnoble@gmail.com> wrote:
I have used dump (ufsdump for Solaris) for years. The basic syntax to do a full backup is:
dump 0f <dump device> <filesystem>
Dump Device can be a tape device, filename, etc. The file system is whatever file system you want to dump. You can either specify by the device (/dev/hda1) or by the name ( / ).
You can write a script to dump all file systems on your system, something like this:
---cut--- !#/bin/sh
FS="/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3"
for f in $FS; do dump 0f /dev/nrst0 $f done ----cut---
In this case I used /dev/nrst0 as the dump device, the n specifies no rewind and rst0 is a tape device.
Mike
jimmy Pierre wrote:
Greetings,
Does anybody run batch files with a "dump" of the system? f yes what exactly do you use.
Cheers, Jimmy
-- You need to verify that dump is not filesystem type specific.
I use XFS primarily for my data and it comes with xfsdump.
Greg