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2 | Finally... The public test version of my port of the 4.4BSD dump | |
3 | and restore programs to Linux is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu in the | |
4 | directory /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs. | |
5 | ||
6 | This port understands the Ext2fs structure and is able to backup | |
7 | and restore Linux Ext2 filesystems. This is a test version and I have only | |
8 | made minimal testing so do not rely too much on it for your backups. | |
9 | ||
10 | This version of dump contains all the BSD features and also includes | |
11 | some enhancements over the previous test versions: | |
12 | - it is possible to backup a subtree instead of a whole filesystem, | |
13 | - some bugs have been fixed :-) | |
14 | - dump is now able to backup filesystems bigger than 2 GB, | |
15 | - the dump format is now compatible with 4.3BSD. This means that you | |
16 | can restore Linux dumps on BSD based operating systems and you can | |
17 | restore BSD dumps on Linux. I have made some tests with FreeBSD | |
18 | and SunOS 4.1.3 and this works fine. I am interested in reports | |
19 | about other BSD based operating systems. | |
20 | ||
21 | I am not sure that multi-volume dumps are Ok. If you use them, please | |
22 | send me a bug (or success :-) report. | |
23 | ||
24 | The dump format is *not* compatible with the previous test versions | |
25 | (versions 0.0 and 0.1), which were distributed as private test versions. If | |
26 | you have backups made by dump 0.0 or 0.1, restore 0.2 will not be able to | |
27 | read them. | |
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29 | You need the latest ext2fs programs source distribution to compile dump | |
30 | and restore because I have used Theodore T'so's Ext2fs library. The latest | |
31 | version (0.5b) of these programs is available on tsx-11.mit.edu in the | |
32 | directory /pub/linux/packages/ext2fs. If you want to build ELF binaries, you | |
33 | also need to get my ELF patch on ftp.ibp.fr in /pub/linux/ELF/patches. | |
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35 | I'd like to thank all the people who have used the private test | |
36 | versions of dump and restore. I have appreciated their feedback that has | |
37 | helped me to improve dump and restore. | |
38 | ||
39 | -- | |
40 | Remy Card | |
41 | Remy.Card@freenix.fr |