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From: Stevie Trujillo <stevie.trujillo@gmail.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: xfsdump questions
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:57:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141219095738.6b6e6c88@localhost> (raw)

Hello!

Is xfsdump an ancient relic or something recommended to new users (I
have never seen anyone recommending it)? I gave it a try and found the
incremental backups to be really fast!

How are incremental backups implemented? I saw that my inventory file
is really small. Does it use some internal xfs metadata to detect
changes? Is it resilient against all kinda renames and changing
timestamps etc that a user might do? (I've previously used a backup
system that broke when doing stuff like that)

Is it possible to backup (and restore) ctimes?

I read that the incremental backups are limited to a depth of 10. Are
they intended to be used in a binary tree like fashion?

--
Stevie Trujillo

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             reply	other threads:[~2014-12-19  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-19  8:57 Stevie Trujillo [this message]
2014-12-22 20:43 ` xfsdump questions Dave Chinner
2014-12-23  0:13   ` Stevie Trujillo

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