Re: [Dump-users] Newbie - couple of questions

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:58:32AM -0700, Ken Godee wrote:

> After playing with the tools available (dump, cpio, tar) to create
> my own local/remote backup routines, I find "Dump" outstanding!

Thanks.

> I did have a couple of questions.....
> 
> 1. Many of the docs recommend "unmounting" file systems,
> (I understand the reasons) but just wanted to make sure
> that remounting "ro" is just as good to not create corruption?

yes. Mounting the filesystem r/o should give 100% success rate.

> 2. Is it possible to tell dump where to put the dumpdate file?
> Since my script is remounting/dumping only one mount point at a time
> I'd like to write the dumpdate file somewhere else and then move
> to /etc after remounting / rw. instead of just not using it while
> dumping /. ie. "-u /var/log/"

You can either recompile dump and set the default dumpdates location
using a ./configure option, or you can set it dynamically on each run
using dump's -D option (this is documented in the dump man page).

Stelian.
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