[plug] suggestions for fast and simple whole linux disk backu p?

[Carl Gherardi]

Turns out the bug was with SMP only and corrupted the filesystem not the
backup, and it was fixed in 2.4.5

http://lwn.net/2001/0503/kernel.php3

Carl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Gherardi 
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:58 AM
> To: 'plug at plug.linux.org.au'
> Subject: RE: [plug] suggestions for fast and simple whole linux disk
> backup?
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.fdns.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:20 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] suggestions for fast and simple whole linux disk
> > backup?
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday 23 May 2002 18:20, Daniel wrote:
> > > just lost a hard disk and hoping for a simple method to 
> > backup a whole
> > > linux disk in future.
> > 
> > man dump
> > 
> > Cheers; Leon
> >
> 
> I may be wrong but wasn't the recommendation some time 
> ago(with the introduction of 2.4) never to use dump as it was 
> broken and broduced corrupt backups in a lot of instances?
> 
> I remeber seeing this somewhere on lwn around a year ago.
> 
> Carl
>