Re: [Dump-users] dump in linux

[Kenneth P. <sh...@se...>]

--On Thursday, December 16, 2010 5:53 AM +0000 Nikhil 
<nik...@gm...> wrote:

> Can any one help me let me know how to try backup in linux through dump
> command. I have tried with command
>
> 1.) #dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /dev/sda1
> 2.) #dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /home
> 3.) #dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /opt

First, you probably want the non-rewinding tape device, nst. Otherwise 
subsequent backups will rewind the tape when it closes and overwrite the 
earlier backups.

> but for above mention command I get ACL error in inode#XXXX ......

What version of dump?

> Please help me how to take back of NFS file system in linux through dump,
> no other method....

I thought dump only works with ext2 and ext3. To back up a remote ext2 
filesystem, you'd use dump on the remote machine to send the output over a 
network socket to a tape device, using rmt.