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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: dump in reiserfs
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:49:43 -0800
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To: Sujit Choudhury <S.Choudhury@westminster.ac.uk>
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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).
>
> Many thanks again.
>
> sujit
>
> Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 10:51 +0000, Sujit Choudhury wrote:
>>
>>> We are running a SLES 8 box which has reiserfs filesystem  Can we
>>> use dump and restore in a normal way for a 360GB of data?
>>>
>>
>>
>> no, dump and restore are for ext2,
>> reiserfs does not have dump. You should use filesystem independent
>> backup program.
>>
>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Sujit Choudhury
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
gnu tar, works much better than unix tar as a dump replacement.