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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Disk backup?
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hmm...

did you compared incremental backup of gnu tar with pdumpfs?
i guess pdumpfs is much reliable and convenient.

pdumpfs(pseudo dumpfs, i guess) runs on UNIX, the same mechanism is =
applied to TimeMachine of Mac.


On 2013/03/27, at 8:22, trebol <trebol55555@yahoo.es> wrote:

> I see a lot of interesting things on this thread, but all of those are
> beyond my knowledge.  I'm just starting to learn programming (K&R),
> the internal structure of the file system is too much for me now. I'm
> thinking about mount dump, and copy the /n/dump directory to other =
system
> (linux). So my questions are:
>=20
> - Is there a way to simulate the incremental backup feature of gnu =
tar?
> - Is possible to restore the system in a new disk with this copy of =
dump?
> - What do you recommend me for send the tar file, ssh, nfs or other =
thing?
>=20
> thanks,
> trebol.
>=20