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From: "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Restoring damaged incremental XFS dump?
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:39:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202769551.16458.1236311973@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)

I wonder whether I should use xfsdump as a replacement for a more
traditional incremental backup solution centered around the TAR archiver
STAR.  The advantage of STAR seems to be that files can also be
recovered even if, for example, the level 0 dump is damaged.  After all,
one is dealing with TAR, a pretty transparent archive format. The
advantage of xfsdump is that it creates true snapshots.

So, what happens when the level 0 dump created with xfsdump becomes
damaged.  Will I still be able to recover some files?  What about files
from >0 dumps?

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             reply	other threads:[~2008-02-11 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-11 22:39 Felix E. Klee [this message]
2008-02-12  0:03 ` Restoring damaged incremental XFS dump? Timothy Shimmin
2008-02-12 11:17   ` Felix E. Klee
2008-02-12 12:24     ` David Chinner

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