On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:20:45PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > Put a [xfs]dump in cron. > > from what I've heard, dump may be dangerous on linux 2.4 kernels. something > to do with how buffers and raw devices are handled now, as opposed to how they used to be. > I've heard of FS corruption due to dump (even on a supposedly real-only FS) > (something to do with dump reading something, which then gets cached, and > then somehow the cache then being written out... it was on lwn.net a few > months ago; but I can't find it right now). > > in any case, it may be dangerous to use dump on a mounted filesystem; since > it reads the raw device, as opposed to what the kernel tells all the other > programs the filesystem looks like. you may not get a completely clean > backup. You are talking about ext2/dump or xfs/xfsdump? florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4