Hi,
The dump and restore commands are missing from this server under SuSE 11.4 for unknown reasons. What is the cleanest way to backup and restore filesystems? Clean means to keep all the original hard/soft links and timestamps. Is find/cpio clean enough?
$ cd /source
$ find . -print | cpio -Bpdumv /destination
Thank you in advance!
If you can connect to the internet, or get to your install media, you can install the tools you want with zypper.
Install which tool, dump? What is it called in SuSE? I've tried 'zypper dump' but it doesn't work. Thanks.
unfortunately, you have to actually tell zypper what to do, not just the package
Try:
zypper install dump
zypper does things like install, uninstall, etc and unless you tell it the action you want, it doesn't work. It doesn't read minds.
What's wrong with tar? Maybe I missed something.