I want to chime in here and say that first off, people don't care about backups. At all.
They only care when it comes to restores. So you need to optmize restores to work the way you expect. If you do a backup at time A, then when you restore the data, you want the state to come back as close to state A as possible. The problem (issue) with dump/tar/cpio, esp once you starting doing mixed backups with a mix of backups, then you have a major problem at restore time, since tar/dump/cpio doesn't *DELETE* files which were backed up at level 0, then deleted (or renamed) from subsequent backups. So when you do a recover, those files all come back again, not just the files at the time of restore. Think about this carefully, it's a bit subtle, but obvious. And it's a real problem. Cheers, John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
