Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:08:44 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs Message-ID: <nospam-1027170524.78354@bambi.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20020719091153.F18913-100000@dallben> of Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:19:42 EST References: <20020719091153.F18913-100000@dallben>
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"Brandon D. Valentine" wrote: | Personally I prefer to use tar anyway. A tar archive | is restorable on most any unix without requiring a vendor/filesystem | specific restore binary be available. That's one less point of failure | in restoring the backups. The only place where tar really won't cut it | is when you're using special filesystem features not traditionally | supported by unix, such as filesystem ACLs. There are lots of places where tar won't cut it: where you want speed in incremental backups; where your backups are backups rather than archives; where you don't wish to leave footprints all through your file systems; and more. If you're making an archive of data rather than a backup of a system, then tar has its uses; if you're using broken systems like Linux, then you may be forced to use inadequate tools like tar for backups as well as archives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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