Jason,
Ivan Raynor here in the Melbourne XFS group did a "proof of concept"
xfsdump with removable media (zip disks I think)
Not production code, but a useful starting point for someone to pick up. I
believe it was discussed on this list a few months ago -- check the
archives.
Mike
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Jason White wrote:
> I read a statement on SGI's XFS site to the effect that xfsdump, a
> high-performance backup program provided with XFS, currently provided
> support only for tape cartridges and did not work well with removable
> media.
>
> I have a CD-RW drive with which to perform backup, either of my entire
> file system or those parts of it which are important to preserve, such
> as the home directory.
>
> What backup tools/strategies do you recommend for use with XFS?
> Obviously, xfsdump has the advantage of preserving any ACLs and
> extended attributes that may exist, which would be lost by other
> tools. I also noticed that xfs_copy isn't ready for Linux yet.
>
> As this isn't necessarily an XFS issue, I would be willing to take the
> discussion elsewhere if list members don't consider this to be an
> appropriate forum.
>
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