Restoring damaged incremental XFS dump?

Felix E. Klee
2008-02-11T22:39:01Z

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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