On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:26:58PM -0500, John R. Jackson wrote:
> >what are ppl more partial to using? ...
>
> This comes up here every once in a while and is basically a religious
> issue.
>
> The points you bring up, as well as being able to do subsets of an entire
> file system and portability, are all good reasons to use GNU tar.
>
> I won't use it here because it alters the access time, and the other
> benefits don't outweigh that, but that's just my own situation.
Using tar I only exclude ./tmp and the holding disk directory.
Are there any problems backing up the FS containing the holding
disk with dump (ufsdump in my case)?
jon
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