From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 19:26: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CA715248 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01328; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:34:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903010334.WAA01328@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Tar In-Reply-To: <14041.59710.83701.737431@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> from "Douglas K. Rand" at "Feb 28, 99 07:11:26 pm" To: rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:34:51 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Douglas K. Rand wrote, > In using tar to do a backup of the root file system... [snip] > Are there any > reasons anybody thinks I shouldn't use the latest GNU tar? Not that I am aware. But there are reasons you might want to use dump rather than tar for backups. See, http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook138.html -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message