> From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Daniel Barrett > > > 1. dump and restore > > I grew up with these commands, but personally haven't used them in > well over a decade. What do you think?
If you want to backup your filesystem and preserve every little tiny detail that people don't normally think of - like named pipes, and character special devices, and hard links, and weird stuff like that, dump & restore are the only sure-fire ways to do it, because the dump & restore source code is written by the same people who write the EXT filesystem code. You might make a comment about use netcat instead of telnet, for network diagnostics, but aside from that, telnet is obsolete as a remote terminal protocol. And all the other stuff, I agree, is obsolete. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
