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March 25, 2016 11:57
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very fast full backup of XFS partition with xfdump and lzo compression
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| sudo xfsdump -L KW12 -M FullBackup -J - / |lzop > /media/oli/465GB/Backup/Oli/Vostro/Linux-xfsdump-2016-03-26.lzo | |
| ## Explanation: | |
| # sudo xfsdump | |
| # -> start the xfsdump programm with root privileges | |
| # -L KW12 | |
| # -> gives the Backup the label KW12 | |
| # -M FullBackup | |
| # -> gives the backup medium (the new backup file) the name FullBackup | |
| # -J | |
| # -> tells it not to record it in the local dump inventory | |
| # - | |
| # -> write to standard out | |
| # / | |
| # -> the xfs filesystem to backup | |
| # |lzop | |
| # -> pipe the dump to the lzop compression programm | |
| # > /media/oli/465GB/Backup/Oli/Vostro/Linux-xfsdump-2016-03-26.lzo | |
| # -> write the backup file to an external hard drive |
Thanks a lot.
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How to restore Linux-xfsdump-2016-03-26.lzo ?
thanks!