"Micheal Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I realize that a lot of folks prefer dump / restore for system backups, > however, to dump to tape, I would recommend using tar since that's what it > does best. As long as the system sees the tape drive, tar -c / dumps > everything to the tape drive.
The only problem with that is that you can't do a complete restore from that and have a working system. I use tar for backups, but that's because I'm perfectly happy knowing I'll have to start with a new-system install if I ever need to recover from a disaster. For serious systems, where getting the whole thing back up on a new disk is critical, dump/restore will be *much* better. This is mostly because of tar's limitations; it doesn't restore the filesystem itself, it doesn't handle device files, fifos, and I don't think it has any clue about sparse files. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
