[NTLUG:Discuss] backing up in linux....

[Eric Waguespack]

ok, thanks anyway.. sounds like I have another perl project to add to my list.


On 9/14/06, Eric Schnoebelen <eric at cirr.com> wrote:
>
> "Eric Waguespack" writes:
> - man chattr
> - ..
> - A file with the 'd' attribute set is not candidate for backup when the
> - dump(8) program is run.
> - ...
>
>         egsner-> man chattr
>         man: no entry for chattr in the manual
>         egsner-> uname -s
>         NetBSD
>
>         eleven-> man chattr
>         No manual entry for chattr.
>         eleven-> uname
>         HP-UX
>
>         zonker-> man -k chattr
>         chattr               (1)  - change file attributes on a Linux second extended file system
>         zonker-> uname -s
>         Linux
>
> My read of that is chattr(1) is good for one OS (variant), and
> ony one of the filesystem types the OS variant supports.
>
> "classic" dump programs used the last modification time on the
> inode, along with a timestamp of the last dump at a given level,
> to determine if a file should be placed on the dump media.
>
> Additionally, dump file formats are typically OS, and file
> system, specific, and thus not very portable.
>
> --
> Eric Schnoebelen                eric at cirr.com           http://www.cirr.com
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