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From: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: dump in reiserfs
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:40:16 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:18:17PM +0000, Sujit Choudhury wrote:
> Thanks Vladimir.  Is there anything that we can use so that we dump the 
> filesystem and use pipe to restore it from the input?
> By dump (I mean a replacement dump command).

Dump is only safe on unmounted or read-only filesystems, btw. It has a nice
interface, but you're better off using tar. See the -g option for
incremental backups.

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