From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 18 23:38:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D71B37B400 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DAE8543E5E for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:38:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 19 Jul 2002 07:38:52 +0100 (BST) To: "Mark W. Krentel" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2002 21:42:18 EDT." <200207190142.g6J1gI517325@dreamscape.com> X-Request-Do: Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:38:52 +0100 From: David Malone Message-ID: <200207190738.aa74454@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Do you check your backups, or does Amanda do it for you? I think dump > is on the way out in Linux. I've managed to restore them when needed (despite Redhat's best efforts over the years, including shipping a version of restore that couldn't restore symlinks). In general we don't store users data on the Linux machines, so it is only the OS that will get chewed. Maybe I should resign to using tar on Linux. Can tar be made not to modify the ctime, mtime and atime? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message