Hi,
Thanks to all of you out there for the help you gave me on using dump.
I'd like to know, how can I verify that the backup is reliable? Can I use
restore to test it?
Also, when I did a dump on my file systems, I wasn't sure if it worked.
Here's what happened:
I have the root file system with several NFS mounted filesystems. The
machine with the tape drive has two physical hard drives. I used the
command parameters for dump from the man page, and told it to backup /.
It did something and seemed to back it up really quickly, and then it
popped out the tape. I then put the same tape back in, used mt to fsf to
the end of the volume and told dump to backup the second physical disk.
Now the tape has a capacity of 4.8 Gigs, and the backup of / took less
than 5 minutes, so I do not think all 4.8 G of tape could have been used.
All the same, the second time I called dump, it did some tape whirring and
then popped out the tape asking for another one. It took a while ( a few
hours) before it got done, and from the console output, it seemed to have
gone through.
Any idea if the first backup worked? How do you all organize your backup
schedule?
Thanks a lot.
Santosh Krishnan
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