[plug] Restore

[Marc]

Craig Ringer wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:03, Marc wrote:
> 
>> I have created data dumps as backups to a directory called /backup now I
>> wanted to restore those files so I used the following command to get into
>> the backup file so I can manually restore them in 'whatever' directory.
>>
>> #restore -i -A workdir -b 1024
>> >restore
> 
> What tools did you use for your backups? Please provide any relevant
> information such as what program you used, what command/script you used,
> your distro and version, etc. (I'm getting _really_ sick of saying that.
> Why do I have to?).
Fedora Core 3 and its webmin.  The script itself.  The kernel is 2.6.9.

Sorry I forgot to say it. My apologies for that.


> 
>> Also in order to backup the datadumps onto cd do I have to make them into
>> an iso?
> 
> It would be wise to do so. It's entirely possible to burn whatever data
> you feel like to a CD - you can dump a tar file directly on it then
> restore from it like a tape, for example, or you can write an ext2
> filesystem to one. In general, though, it's just safer to use ISO9660
> because that guarantees the CD will be readable on other computers.
> 
>> One last point I have read that ext3 has a filesize limit of 2Gig. If
>> thats correct how do you as in people on the list get past this when
>> backing up data since when I backup its already sitting at 1.7gig now?
> 
> Use any vaguely recent 2.4 kernel and glibc and that limit no longer
> exists.
> 
>> Is it that you created multiple backup files then create one big iso?
> 
> What good does a >2gig ISO do you? Are you writing to a DVD or
> something?
Yes I am writing to DVD so yeah bigger than a 2 gig.