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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. | |
| 28 | ||
| 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. | |
| 34 | ||
| 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 |