From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 20 6: 8:48 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 711AE37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 06:08:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 07A7B43E5E for ; Sat, 20 Jul 2002 06:08:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb@gbch.net) Received: (qmail 78392 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Jul 2002 23:08:45 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.26 06-May-2002 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 17 days, 5:06 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 23:08:44 +1000 From: Greg Black To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump on mounted fs References: <20020719091153.F18913-100000@dallben> In-reply-to: <20020719091153.F18913-100000@dallben> of Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:19:42 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 "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