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What tool did you use to write the data to the tape? tar is |
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filesystem-neutral since it works at the file level; dump can be |
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troublesome since it works at the block level (Linus says dump hasn't |
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been safe to use since the 2.0 days anyway). |
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On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 13:55, Karl Zander wrote: |
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> I have a partition with ReiserFS. Its backed up to DLT tape. If I ever |
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> have to restore those files from tape, could they be restored to different |
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> type of file system like ext3? I have another server up but it does not |
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> use ReiserFS. In a pinch I could restore files to that server. I am not |
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> sure if there is anything special about the file system on the server and |
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> the files written to tape that makes the files dependent on the file system. |
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> -Karl |
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