From: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: dump/restore not supported for ext4
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:23:34 +0100
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On 03/04/10 23:05, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I should have researched it more:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511651
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/universe-bugs/2009-June/098729.html
> 
> Looks like it's broken, I agree with the reporters, dump should abort if
> it is dealing with an ext4 filesystem, since you cannot restore data
> from an ext4 dump.
> 
> Justin.
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Hi Justin,

It seems you are using an outdated version of dump.
The latest version of dump, 0.4b42 does contain support for ext4.
I've been using it for the last 8 months for my backups of ext4 without
any problems and restoring is not issue at all with this version.

---
Gertjan.