Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

I should note that I gave a talk on a topic closely related to this http://wiki.oclug.on.ca/doku.php?id=meetingpresentations2017#april (Backup to USB drives in a group or family context: strategies) jn ___ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:51:02 +1000 (AEST) Robert Brockway wrote: > It sounds to me like your backups are online and replicating from the > primary somehow. The next question assumes that is so. Yep. > If data was deleted on the primary would that replicate to the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: My backups are all to hard drives in three separate locations. Everything is RAIDed. I'm placing my bet that not everything will fail at the same time. :) Hi Dianne. Long time no speak. It sounds to me like your backups are online and replicating

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] does anyone still use "dump" for backups these days?

On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i understand that dump is ubiquitous, and that it integrates with entries in /etc/fstab but, beyond that, does anyone seriously use dump for official backups these days? I haven't used it for backups for a long time but I do use it to migrate