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Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> First of all, thanks for sharing. |
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> I used to think xfs was overkill for /boot, but the procedure described |
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> is quite straightforward. |
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> There are two things I don't understand: |
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> 1) why do you delete xfsdump and xfsrestore in /xfsrestore/usr/bin/ just |
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> extracted to link them to /xfsrestore/sbin |
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> 2) the use of df.out isn't clear to me, isn't the dump file name enough |
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> to know what is in there? |
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1) The symlinks are broken if the package is extracted anywhere other |
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than /. I recreated 'em to point where they should (I recall they were |
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needed, as some of the ancillary programs break if they are missing or |
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broken). |
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2) The df.out is so you know that (say) usr.0.dmp should be restored to |
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a device called (say) /dev/sda6. This will avoid the need to edit |
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restored /etc/fstab (or the need to boot into single user mode and fix |
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it). the other point is if you are reusing the same disk setup (assuming |
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a software issue is requiring the restore), then checking df.out ensures |
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that you recover the system using the same partitions for the |
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filesystems as you had pre-restore. |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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P.s: You are quite correct that xfs is overkill for /boot. However I |
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just found it easier to xfs everything (otherwise I'd have to use |
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different dump programs depending on what I was backing up etc... ). To |
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me this is more important than the fact that it wastes disk space a bit |
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(my /boot uses a 128M partition but only gets 93M to actually use...and |
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it uses 11M of that! - but disks are quite big now...) |
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