using dump

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 11:02, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>  What's the best way to do backups?  Am I better off to use dump, or to
> just tar up directory structures?  I see that dump is nice in that it will
> break up large files automatically (not sure if tar will do that).  I
> assume that tar defaults to retaining permissions.  (I do notice there is
> -p option)

I always use rsnapshot to backup. See here:
http://www.rsnapshot.org/
maybe that will suit your need.

Another option, use Mondo Rescue to backup to CD:
http://www.mondorescue.org/

I found that either one of those (depends on your situation / need) is easier 
than manually tar directories.

I found that 'dump' is not reliable in linux machines. I vaguely recall there 
is even a risk of corruption that was mentioned by Linus Torvalds in the 
linux kernel mailing list, so he deprecated that. I don't know what the 
situation with 'dump' is now though, so my statement maybe obsolete.

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

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