Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 23:56:30 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, "FreeBSD-questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump vs tar? Message-ID: <3AFA3B9E.627855F7@DougBarton.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105091106370.79177-100000@husten.security.at12.de>
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Paul Herman wrote: > In practice, the differences between dump and tar are miniscule. One important difference is that only dump will preserve file system flags like schg, etc. If that's not important to you, or you won't be using your backups to create complete new file systems, tar is generally more flexible. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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