Dump errors with selinux
Norman Gaywood
norm at turing.une.edu.au
Mon Dec 13 23:59:06 UTC 2004
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Simon Andrews wrote:
> > We've used dump/restore for our backups since way back in RH7.x.
>
> It's worth noting that Linus Torvalds believes the program to be
> terminally broken:
> http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3
>
> He writes:
> So anybody who depends on "dump" getting backups right is already
> playing russian rulette with their backups.
It's also worth noting that the developers of dump think that the risks
are overstated.
http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
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