using dump

[Burke, Thomas G.]

Thanks - O am liking what I seen in rsnapshot.org

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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 11:20 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: using dump



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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