XFS WAS [Re: RH 8.0 X server reconfig problem...]

[Net Llama!]

Perfect!  Thanks so much!

On 10/20/02 18:30, Andrew Mathews wrote:

> Net Llama! wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Andrew, do you know of any good documentation on xfsdump?  I've been
> > unable to find much that sanely walks a person through using it for
> > backup & recovery.
> >
>
> The best I can lay my hands on is the O'Reilly Unix Backup & Recovery by
> W. Curtis Preston. ISBN # 1-56592-642-0. Essentially, what I use is
> based on the syntax of: /sbin/xfsdump -f /dev/st0 -o -l 0 -F -L
> /mountpoint. In reverse, to restore I use /sbin/xfsrestore -if /dev/st0
> /mountpoint. The interactive restore allows you to select or skip a
> dump, and when selecting, for example a restore of /usr, if you only
> want to restore /usr/local then select 2)Restore this dump, at which
> point you can do an "ls" to view the files in the dump, do an "add *" to
> select everything, or "add /local" for the /usr/local directory, or "add
> /usr/local/foo" for the individual file name. Each selection is
> indicated with an asterisk. When done selecting, simply do an "extract"
> and it's done. Remember that xfsdump backs up by the mountpoints, and
> uses the non-rewinding device. The script that I use, modified a tad for
> each individual machine is below. (Watch out for the linewrap)

> [SNIP]
>
> This is what I use for DAT & DLT tape drives, you must add "-q" to the
> XFSDUMP line for QIC or Travan drives.
> HTH,


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