Hi

Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Andreas Micklei wrote on 2008-12-15 10:13:38 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
> Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]:
>> Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn:
>>> Some of you running dd might want to consider "dump"
>>> [...]
>> I have been doing that for about two years now. Works great!
> 
> I've been meaning to ask/point this out for some time now. Has anyone actually
> tried *restoring* a dump of a *reasonably sized* pool? The reason I'm asking 
> is
> that as far as I understand the man page, restore runs completely in user
> space, so it is faced with the same problem as cp/rsync/tar - the need to keep
> an inode-to-path-name mapping for correctly re-creating hardlinks. It is
> possible that restore can handle this problem, but I wouldn't take it for
> granted without testing.

The restore issue is the reason that targets me to a sort of live system 
which I can easily test and use  any time I want. I prefer to waste some 
time more while doing the backup and than to do a fast backup and spent 
a lot of time to recover it in case of "disaster". That's why I want to 
have this live USB-HD.

Cheers,
Rodrigo


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