On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 11:26am, Michael Perry wrote
> I have been using dump for quite some time on two of three systems and
> don't notice any problems but Torvalds called into question the validity
> of the backups when using dump and 2.4 kernels.
>
> Is this still the case with dump and a kernel like a self-compiled
> 2.4.17 kernel running with debian unstable with the latest debian
> packages? I have switched over to using gnutar for most other things
> but I still use dump on one system which does webserving for me.
AHHH!
\begin{monty_python}
Run Away! Run Away!
\end{monty_python}
Err, sorry 'bout that. But this little flame war erupted back in the fall
(IIRC), and we don't want to do it again. The upshot is that some people
see random date timeouts on 2.4.x Linux systems using dump, and those
issues go away with tar.
But what you should use is what you are comfortable with and what passes
*your* tests.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
