Hi, Neil!
Trying to kill the keyboard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] produced:
> Just looking for experiences (good or bad) with dump. You can mail me
> directly if you wish and I'll summarise to the list.
Used to use dump (not anymore since the tape drive broke).
Plus: Works on inode level, can do incrementals in several levels
(and needs no find for it, either), has it's own listing in
/etc/fstab, interactive shell for restoring build into restore
itself, directory data is saved at the beginning so you get a
fast overview, dump is a standard utility on UNIXes, works
well with buffer, restore is small enough to fit on a full
rescue disk (57 k and only needs libc).
Minus: Does only work with ext2, not with e.g. FAT, does not
correctly span multible archives (the file which is broken in
2 is damaged, the fact *is* mentioned in the manpage),
revision is 0.3, has not been worked on for years, does not
compress the archive (afio does compress on a per-file basis,
so a bitflip will kill just one file, tar + gzip would kill
all after), does not use "-y" switches, but rather "dump abc
a-value c-value" format, after you restored a partition you
need to make a new level 0 backup (all the inodes have
changed).
and probably many more things I forgot.
-Wolfgang
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