Hello All,
I have a question about xfsdump/xfsrestore usage on Linux.
I'm running Linux 2.6.19-gentoo-r5.
Now I have 2 disks,
/dev/hda is my system disk
/dev/hdc is a disk I want to use for backups.
This is how my fstab looks like:
/dev/hda1 / xfs
noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 1 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/hdc3 /var/tmp/portage xfs
noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 0 0
/dev/hdc2 /data xfs
noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8 0 0
/dev/hdc1 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro
0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto
0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec
0 0
########################################
Now the questions:
1) If I get the xfsdump synax correctly I just have to do:
# cd /
# xfsdump -f /data/backup.file /
Is it right?
What about opened and "currently in use by the system" files? Are they
backuped in a proper way? What about tmpfs like /proc, are they been
ignored?
2) If I'd have to restore my system from the dump, how would you recommend
to do it? Booting from LiveCD and making # xfsrestore -f / data/backup.file
/ ?
Would it be a bootable/operational system?
What are the expected glitches?
Best Regards,
Leon Kolchinsky
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