To perform a level 0, single stream dump of the root filesystem
to a locally mounted tape drive, prompting for session and media
labels when required:
# xfsdump -f /dev/tape /
To specify session and media labels explicitly:
# xfsdump -L session_1 -M tape_0 -f /dev/tape /
To perform a dump to a remote tape using the minimal rmt protocol
and a set blocksize of 64k:
# xfsdump -m -b 65536 -f otherhost:/dev/tape /
To perform a level 0, multi-stream dump to two locally mounted
tape drives:
# xfsdump -L session_2 -f /dev/rmt/tps4d6v -M tape_1 \
-f /dev/rmt/tps5d6v -M tape_2 /
To perform a level 1 dump relative to the last level 0 dump
recorded in the inventory:
# xfsdump -l 1 -f /dev/tape /
To copy the contents of a filesystem to another directory (see
xfsrestore(8)):
# xfsdump -J - / | xfsrestore -J - /new
