Joshua, My experience with tar (and perhaps things have changed with gnutar) is that is is not as judicious as dump when it comes to a complete restore. Things like block devices, modes, ownership and so on were not always restored exactly.
Has this changed? That is, in the event of a disk crash, can one restore a complete file-system exactly as it was before the crash using gnutar (including file-systems with /dev fifo's and so on)? I have always had a good experience doing this with dump, but historically tar did not get it exactly right. Dick > On 25 Jan 2002 at 2:25am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > I am running the dump which was installed with redhat 7.0: > > > > dump-0.4b19-4.rpm > > As an aside (well, as two asides): > > 1) You want to update that. dump picked up a new maintainer around the > time of RedHat6.2/7.0, and has been progressing quite a bit since then, > but... > > 2) You may want to consider using tar. Many on this list (myself > included) have run into random 'data timeouts' using dump on 2.4 kernels. > Moving to tar gets rid of those issues. > > Of course, now that you've got it working (thanks for stepping in John) > this probably isn't what you want to hear. > > -- > Joshua Baker-LePain > Department of Biomedical Engineering > Duke University >
