From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753824Ab0CEGXo (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:23:44 -0500 Received: from cpsmtpm-eml104.kpnxchange.com ([195.121.3.8]:62499 "EHLO CPSMTPM-EML104.kpnxchange.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753633Ab0CEGXm (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 01:23:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4B90A366.9080201@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:34 +0100 From: Gertjan van Wingerde User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100125 Lightning/1.0b2pre Shredder/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4,gmane.linux.kernel To: Justin Piszcz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: dump/restore not supported for ext4 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 Mar 2010 06:23:35.0828 (UTC) FILETIME=[62F4E540:01CABC2C] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Hi Justin, It seems you are using an outdated version of dump.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.