well, when using a non-standard filesystem like jfs on linux, i don't
think you have much choice but to use gtar, which doesn't depend on the
filesystem used.

but anyone, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong about this..

-rodi.


On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 22:28, John Bossert wrote:
> Gtar works fine (and I use it for my Dailies.)
> 
> Here, I'm trying to establish a "bare metal" restore process.  With 
> Solaris, if _really bad things_ happen, I can take my ufs dumps and 
> rebuild a machine fairly directly.
> 
> Is the "best practice" in the Debian world to just use gtar for this?
> 
> How do others manage this?  Thx.
> 
> -john
> 
> R.M. Evers wrote:
> 
> > john,
> > 
> > you say gtar and dump work on the sun boxes, but only state that dump
> > fails on the debian boxes (which is probably correct, since it only
> > dumps ext2 filesystems). did you try gtar? it should work.. :-)
> > 
> > regards,
> > -rodi.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 17:07, John Bossert wrote:
> > 
> >>Adding a pair of Debian(woody) clients to a Solaris shop...  Amanda is 
> >>working just fine with both gtar and dump on the Sun boxes.
> >>
> >>Trying to dump filesystems, failed.  Discovered that there's no "dump" 
> >>on the debian boxes...
> >>
> >>All the filesystems are jfs, yet the "dump" package I find at debian.org 
> >>(0.4b27-4) appears oriented towards ext2.
> >>
> >>What package do I want to install on these clients to play nice with 
> >>Amanda?  Thx.