From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: should i use dump/restore? Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 02:37:13 GMT
In article <14036@cayman.COM> pgf@cayman.com (Paul Fox) writes:
>hi -- i'm about to build and start using the BSD dump and restore utilities.
> is this a good idea? should i be using something else? i'll be
> backing up to a combination of floppies and extra (difference physical)
> hard disk partitions.
>
> (are dump/restore already ported to linux? if so, where?)
Aren't dump and restore filesystem-specific? If so, you're in for trouble
because the filesystem they're presently coded for (BSD FFS) isn't supported
under Linux, and dumpa nd restore don't support the minix, linux aka minix-30,
extfs, ext2fs, xiafs, etc. filesystems.
What do you gain from those over GNU tar, anyway? (Before you answer
"incremental backups", try looking at the texinfo documentation for GNU tar.)
++Brandon
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