From: hbj@engr.engr.uark.edu (Bernard Johnson) Subject: Re: where is dump? Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 00:41:55 GMT
dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
>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. :(
>
Well, I was really thinking of dump for a tape backup... Can you really backup
anything 100+ meg to floppies? I haven't backed up to floppies since all I had
was a 20 meg drive to backup... :-) And now I'm nearing 1 gig... No floppies
here.
Bernard Johnson
hbj@engr.engr.uark.edu