Bug 99185

Summary: Red Hat's recommendation about not using the dump/restore utilities appears to be incorrect.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mark Harig <maharig>
Component: rhl-sapAssignee: Ed Bailey <ed>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Tammy Fox <tammy.c.fox>
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Hardware: i686   
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URL: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-disaster-rhlspec.html
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Description Mark Harig 2003-07-15 16:42:00 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-27.7.x i686; en-US; 0.7)
Gecko/20010316

Description of problem:
In section 8.4.2.3. "dump/restore: Not Recommended!" of the System
Administration Primer, the text says that due to the kernel's design, the
dump/restore utilities should not be used.  I asked the mailing list for this
(SourceForge) project whether this recommendation was accurate.  According to
their reply it is not:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1040141&forum_id=7176

The message at this link includes a reply by the primary developer of the
dump/restore utilities that says the points made are "100% accurate."  Because
the message at that link contradicts your recommendation, it appears that the
recommendation should be removed and an errata should be issued.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rhl-sap(EN)-9-HTML-RHI (2003-02-20T01:08)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read Red Hat's recommendation at the URL listed above.
2.Read the reply at the URL provided in the description.



Actual Results:  The maintainer of the dump/restore utilities disagrees with Red
Hat's recommendations about those utilities.

Expected Results:  Either the recommendation should be removed or further
clarification should be provided by Red Hat.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Ed Bailey 2003-07-15 16:56:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89849 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:57:03 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.