dump and ext3

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Wed Jun 30 19:22:44 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 12:25:55AM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> Where can I obtain dump and restore for ext3?

Although dump is supported for ext3, don't use it.  It will, some day,
give you unrecoverable backups.  It could be today, it could be next
year, but it will silently back up garbage due to the caching that's
taking place these days.  Linus said simply "don't use it".

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