Re: [Dump-users] dump on CD (Linux only)

[Bill D. <dav...@tm...>]

Joerg Schilling wrote:

>jar...@be... wrote:
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>>On 26 Jul, Stelian Pop wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:45:26PM +0200, jar...@ig... wrote:
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>>>>ftp://ftp.igpm.rwth-aachen.de/pub/jarausch/Dump_On_CD/dump-04b23CD.diff
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>>>This patch modifies dump.h, reminiscent from a previous patch but
>>>unused now. Please remove it.
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>>I don't think so. Currently in (04b23) restore is linked against 
>>../common/dumprmt.o
>>and all global flags like Mflag are allocated THERE. So I have put
>>the new MultiFlag in dump.h so that it gets allocated there to.
>>Unfortunately the restore/Makefile doesn't check the dependeny of
>>../common/dumprmt.o on dump.h
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>I don't know why this is crossposted to cdrwite@
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>but incremental backups and restores in a OS and filesystem independent 
>way should be possible with star.
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I don't believe this discussion was about any backup methods but dump 
and restore. Different problem, different solution.

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bill davidsen <dav...@tm...>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979