[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Bradley Marshall]

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, David Jericho wrote:
> Dump and restore is an excellent combo for doing this sort of thing,
> but be aware that there are caveats that could bite you in rare
> circumstances under Linux[1]. Always compare the two file systems for
> differences in the data. cmp(1) and md5sum(1) are two easy ways of
> comparing files.

``So anybody who depends on "dump" getting backups right is already playing
russian rulette with their backups.  It's not at all guaranteed to get the
right results - you may end up having stale data in the buffer cache that
ends up being "backed up".

Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind.''

 - Linus at http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3

You can draw your own conclusions from that.

Thanks,
Brad
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