Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types:
>
> On 27-Jul-2001 Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:46:24PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> James
> > > Howard writes:
> > > : A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that
> > > : great either. There is no way to exlude specific directories with dump
> > > : and it appears to be quite painful to restore a specific directory
> > > : (though
> > > : I could be wrong about this.
> >
> > Restore in interactive mode (-i) is pretty good for this kind of thing.
>
> But it still sucks for backing up when you _know_ you don't want everything and
> you couldn't even if you wanted it because your backup media is too small..
>
> ie selectivity is good :)
So are multi-volume backups and properly designed file system layouts.
<mike
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