On 07/27/2014 07:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 3:33 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Can anyone who has had a chance to work with 7 tell me
>> if "dump" and "restore" work with the new XFS file system?
>>
>> -T
>
> Why would you *want* that? Seriously? When backups of files, rather
> than filesystems, are much more easily mirrored onto a read-only,
> accessible target to allow people to recover their deleted files
> quickly and cheaply?
>
> Even if you need to back up to tape, AMANDA and half a dozen other
> technologies do a much better job with "tar" or "rsync" based backups.
>

Hi Nico,

1) It is *insanely* fast

2) it is command line

3) I am the one that does the recovering, not the user.
    (I leave the backup drives unmounted when not on use
    on purpose!  I do not want the user anywhere near
    those drives.)

4) I am able to back up 100% of my drive and reinstall
    100% of it.

I have had to reinstall twice when Old-Out-Of-Date had
an out-of-date kernel that wiped my hard drive TWICE
when I tried to cut a DVD.  (Our intrepid heroes at
Red Hat fixed it for me.  Try to get that kind of service
from M$!)

I have notes on how to restore the whole potato with
"restore" that I will share with anyone the needs it --
just ping me in the subject line.

-T

Did I mention that it is *insanely* fast?