Re: [ILUG] Backing up to disk

From: kevin lyda (kevin+dated+1032364277.35869a at domain ie.suberic.net)
Date: Fri 13 Sep 2002 - 16:51:21 IST


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:20:40PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > According to kevin lyda:
> > > that sounds fine really. but you could use cvs as an alternative.
> > > it would be silly, but it's an option.
> Not really an option - what about binary files ?

seems to work fine.

> I like dump but it doesn't support ReiserFS or JFS filesystems so . . .

ext3. c'mon niall, give up, use the vfs that's actually completed.

> And dump is designed for backup to tape. It will of course backup to files,
> but all this started because I think that there must be a better way of
> backing up when disk is your medium - as Kate pointed out in IRC, I'm trying
> to design a versioning filesystem.

any plans to port the vms fs to linux? kenn?

kevin

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