xfsdump

Administrative Utilities for the XFS File System

The xfsdump package contains xfsdump, xfsrestore, and a number of other utilities for administering XFS file systems. xfsdump examines files in a file system, determines which files need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape, or other storage medium. It uses XFS-specific directives for optimizing the dump of an XFS file system and also knows how to backup XFS extended attributes. Backups created with xfsdump are "endian safe" and can thus be transferred between Linux machines of different architectures and also between IRIX machines. xfsrestore performs the inverse function of xfsdump. It can restore a full backup of a file system. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may be restored from full or partial backups.