Quoting Joshua Baker-LePain on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:43:14PM -0500:
> 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
>
Thanks!
I did not see any of the previous posts on the issue so I did not "dig
deeply enough" to find the Python :)
I don't want to be accused of restarting any old flamage.
--
Michael Perry | "Do or do not; there is no try" Master Yoda
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