From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 1:54:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c007.snv.cp.net (c007-h012.c007.snv.cp.net [209.228.33.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D43437B422 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 01:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from otterr@telocity.com) Received: (cpmta 17385 invoked from network); 9 May 2001 01:54:22 -0700 Received: from dsl-216-227-91-85.telocity.com (HELO zoso) (216.227.91.85) by smtp.telocity.com (209.228.33.219) with SMTP; 9 May 2001 01:54:22 -0700 X-Sent: 9 May 2001 08:54:22 GMT From: "Otter" To: "FreeBSD-questions (E-mail)" Subject: dump vs tar? Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 04:51:53 -0400 Message-ID: <000701c0d865$4c60e950$1400a8c0@zoso> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does anyone know of an online post comparing the pros and cons of dump and tar? I've been readng the man pages, trying to decide betwen the two. I just got a 20/40 DLT and will be looking to do backups on the FreeBSD machine, but I'll also need to pull stuff from Windows 2k and OpenBSD. (Maybe samba/nfs mounts to FreeBSD?). If anyone has comments or suggestions, I'd like to hear them. This is not intended to start a flame war, just looking for a comparison of the two to help me make my choice. Specifically, are they any positives or negatives not mentioned in the man pages? Thanks in advance. -Otter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message