Please not again this discussion... it has been discussed in depth (if i remember right) last fall, so please have a lock at the archives of that time..... Christoph
Uncle George wrote: > Ya, but didnt someone post that "DUMP" on linux can fail - if the > conditions are right? I think is was suggested that SMP systems can > demonstrate the failure sooner. > I think that Mr. Torvolds ( sorry is i mis-spelled) made that comment or > conclusion. > Are there some caveats that need to be added here ? > /gat > > "Bernhard R. Erdmann" wrote: > >>>Which backup program is best? dump, says some people. Elizabeth D. Zwicky >>>torture tested lots of backup programs. The clear choice for preserving >>>all your data and all the peculiarities of Unix filesystems is dump, she >>>stated. Elizabeth created filesystems containing a large variety of >>>unusual conditions (and some not so unusual ones) and tested each program >>>by do a backup and restore of that filesystems. The peculiarities >>>included: files with holes, files with holes and a block of nulls, files >>>with funny characters in their names, unreadable and unwriteable files, >>>devices, files that change size during the backup, files that are >>>created/deleted during the backup and more. She presented the results at >>>LISA V in Oct. 1991. >>> >>This article is archived here: >>http://berdmann.dyndns.org/doc/dump/zwicky/testdump.doc.html >> >
