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Date:      Wed, 18 Jun 1997 17:35:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, brandon@ice.cold.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump/restore with compression
Message-ID:  <199706190035.RAA22116@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E0weS8a-0002m7-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 18, 97 03:19:32 pm

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> > Does anybody USE dump/restore anymore?

	yes.  elizabeth zwicky wrote a usenix paper about torture
	testing backup methids (dump, tar, cpio).

	dump was the most reliable of the group.
jmb

ps.	dont user compression.  if the data is valuable enough to backup
	its valuable enough to backup reliably.



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