From: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dump/restore not supported for ext4
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B90A366.9080201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003041704230.17723@p34.internal.lan>
On 03/04/10 23:05, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I should have researched it more:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511651
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/universe-bugs/2009-June/098729.html
>
> Looks like it's broken, I agree with the reporters, dump should abort if
> it is dealing with an ext4 filesystem, since you cannot restore data
> from an ext4 dump.
>
> Justin.
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Hi Justin,
It seems you are using an outdated version of dump.
The latest version of dump, 0.4b42 does contain support for ext4.
I've been using it for the last 8 months for my backups of ext4 without
any problems and restoring is not issue at all with this version.
---
Gertjan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 22:05 dump/restore not supported for ext4 Justin Piszcz
2010-03-04 23:26 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-05 4:38 ` tytso
2010-03-05 6:23 ` Gertjan van Wingerde [this message]
2010-03-05 14:27 ` Justin Piszcz
2010-03-05 16:21 ` Bdale Garbee
2010-03-08 11:03 ` Stelian Pop
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