On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:31:46AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote: > I plan to use gnu tar instead of dump to take my amanda backups. Is it > as stable/safe as dump/ufsdump ? I need to be able to exclude files, > that's why I use gnu tar.
There are those who believe that tar is safer than dump, at least when running under Linux/ext2fs. Linus Torvalds is one of them, although there are plenty of others who say that there's no significant difference either way.
