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Re: Dump for Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Claus-Justus Heine)
Wed Oct 1 10:16:04 1997
To: Tall cool one <ice@mama.indstate.edu>
Cc: david@dlomas.com, linux-tape@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Claus-Justus Heine <claus@momo.math.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: 01 Oct 1997 01:12:32 +0200
In-Reply-To: Tall cool one's message of Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:49:46 -0500
Tall cool one <ice@mama.indstate.edu> writes:
> David Lomas <david@dlomas.com> writes:
> > Some time ago I attempted to build "dump" as in Sun OS "sump" or Solaris
> > "ufsdump" for kernel 2.0.0.
> >
> > Since the "dump" archives that I've foung haven't been up-dated since
> > (generally) 1995, I though that I'd ask specifically whether or not
> > anyone's using dump.
>
> I've used BSD dump ported to Linux to restore a dump tape off a Sequent
> system done in '95, restored perfectly. Dump hasn't changed it's format in
> a million years. I find that dump is a lot nicer when it comes time to
> restore, since I usually only need to restore one or two files at a time.
>
> > How did you build it with specific reference to the newer e2fs progs
> > libraries with 2.0.?
>
> First get the latest, dump-0.4.tar.gz off of sunsite and also get the
> latest e2fsprogs (1.06 I beleive). Follow the instructions on how to build
> the e2fsprogs with shared libraries:
No, at least version 1.10, if not newer. If I remember right then some
bugs in 1.09 were the reason for the 1.10 release, so better don't use
1.09 (from memory, I'm not an ext2 expert)
Cheers
Claus
