On Friday 02 December 2005 08:33, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:46:57AM +0100, Jehan PROCACCIA wrote:
>> Ram Krishnamurthy wrote:
>> >Hi Jehan
>> >What do you mean by
>> >
>> >> Since then, I fsck.ext3 -f the /var partition which caused me the
>> >> problems, it works fine now (last 3 days) ,
>> >
>> >What works fine? The restore? Are you not seeing the file corruption
>> >anymore?
>>
>> Yes the restore worked fine, but maybe it's not due to the fact that
>> I run fsck, but only because since those last 3 days, nobody was
>> manipulating the files while they were dumped !?
>> Someone else on this list (Paul Bijnens) told me that it is most
>> certainly due to that fact that I use dump to backup that partition ,
>> and if you read that :
>> http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
>> it could be a good explanation . so do you confirm that I should move
>> to :
>>
>> define dumptype root-tar {
>>    global
>>    program "GNUTAR"
>>    comment "root partitions dumped with tar"
>>
>>
>> Anyway, if you have other suggestion , I'll appreciate, because today
>> my only solution is to move that backup from dump to tar . But will
>> this solve definitly my problem, will tar create other ones ? which
>> (tar/dump or soething else) is best finally ?
>
>You really think there is a "universal best"?  Tar has its own problems
>including increased time of backup and inability to handle some
> extended types of file attributes.
>
>Do your client OS/filesystem combos support ext3 snapshots?
>Some recent ones do?  If so, you could set things up to make a
>snapshot just before the amdump, use dump on that non-changing
>snapshot, then delete the snapshot after the dump.

Someone reported here, a month or so back, that Jorg Schillings 'Star'
also worked with amanda, and I know its supposed to properly handle
that stuff, just never got a round tuit to try it with.

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