[plug] Filesystem backups

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Mon Apr 14 15:52:53 WST 2003


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:41, Chris Griffin wrote:
> Just wondering if/what we have on Linux (RedHat) that would be equivalent 
> to the Solaris ufsdump. I use ufsdump to back up a few Solaris systems 
> across the network to an old
> Exabyte drive on another Solaris system and wanted to do the same with my 
> Linux boxes.

'dump' seems to do similar for ext2/3 file systems.

I've never used it though, I'm a 'tar zcf' person :)

It's in the standard Debian distro, don't know about others.

Regards,

Ryan




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