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    SubjectRe: dump/restore not supported for ext4
    On 03/04/10 23:05, Justin Piszcz wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I should have researched it more:
    >
    > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511651
    > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/universe-bugs/2009-June/098729.html
    >
    > Looks like it's broken, I agree with the reporters, dump should abort if
    > it is dealing with an ext4 filesystem, since you cannot restore data
    > from an ext4 dump.
    >
    > Justin.
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    Hi Justin,

    It seems you are using an outdated version of dump.
    The latest version of dump, 0.4b42 does contain support for ext4.
    I've been using it for the last 8 months for my backups of ext4 without
    any problems and restoring is not issue at all with this version.

    ---
    Gertjan.


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