Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:34:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from blake.timetraveller.org (blake.timetraveller.org [203.23.43.10]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with SMTP id i1JEY2KO011094 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 06:34:03 -0800 Received: from zen.timetraveller.org (CPE00105ae6b1e1-CM000039aeec61.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [63.138.11.154]) by blake.timetraveller.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1JEXqhT016110 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:33:55 +1000 Received: from zen.timetraveller.org (zen.timetraveller.org [192.168.120.2]) by zen.timetraveller.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i1JEXpgx013383 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:33:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:33:51 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Brockway To: XFS List Subject: Re: xfsdump - In-Reply-To: <20040219070630.C244261@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <1077131825.4214.13.camel@bubbles.imr-net.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20040218204321.033df780@pop.xs4all.nl> <20040219070630.C244261@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-archive-position: 2158 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: robert@timetraveller.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Nathan Scott wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:44:26PM +0100, Seth Mos wrote: > > At 11:17 18-2-2004 -0800, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > > >Can I xfsdump a live filesystem? > > > > xfsdump can only use mounted filesystems to do the dumps. Restores can go > > to device directly IIRC. > > Both xfsdump & xfsrestore go to mounted filesystems (restore > does creates/mkdirs/chmods,etc). Just to provide a real world example: I do live backups of all my xfs filesystems. About 6 months ago I had to invoke a DR (disaster recovery) on one box that runs xfs exclusively. I used xfsrestore to return the data to disk from the latest full & incremental backups and it worked flawlessly. Within a short space of time my system was back up and doing productive work again. I'm sending this email from that very system now. Cheers, Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert@timetraveller.org, zzbrock@uqconnect.net Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org) "The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens" -Baha'u'llah