This section describes the backing-up and restoring of the GFS Shared File System using.
Backing-up and restoring file by file
General-purpose backing-up tools not dependent on the file system structure (ArcServe/OPEN, etc.)
Standard Linux commands cpio(1L) and tar(1)
Backing-up and restoring entire file system
Standard Linux commands dd (1)
Note
dump(8) etc. of ext2 cannot be used to back up the GFS Shared File System since it depends on the file system configuration.
The following describes the backing-up and restoring data of the GFS Shared File System in this Chapter.
Backing-up and restoring data using Standard Linux commands : cpio(1L), tar(1) and dd(1).
