From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: where is dump? Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1993 17:06:14 GMT
Bernard Johnson (hbj@engr.engr.uark.edu) wrote:
: Has anyone written a dump/restore suite for linux? dump/restore is so
: much nicer to use than tar for backups...
It potentially is nicer, but I did give dump a try when running 386BSD (it
was the first thing I tried for backing the system) but it proved unusable,
because it spawns a new child task for each floppy. It worked OK for a
while, but when it got to about disk 15 or so, the system was beginning
to thrash. :(
Also I don't really see the distinction between different dump levels in
the dump utility (perhaps one can elaborate on this) - I see two different
backup stategies, namely a full backup, and an incremental one, which is
easily derivable from (for example) touching a file in /etc after the
full backup, and using find -newer to get filenames modified since the
last full backup.
: Bernard Johnson
: hbj@engr.engr.uark.edu
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