Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:34 +0100 | From | Gertjan van Wingerde <> | Subject | Re: dump/restore not supported for ext4 |
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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. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
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It seems you are using an outdated version of dump.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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