Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 11:12:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump vs tar? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105091106370.79177-100000@husten.security.at12.de> In-Reply-To: <000701c0d865$4c60e950$1400a8c0@zoso>
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Otter wrote: > Does anyone know of an online post comparing the pros and cons of dump > and tar? I've been reading the man pages, trying to decide between 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. It's a bit dated (1991) but still a good read: http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.html In practice, the differences between dump and tar are miniscule. The main difference is that tar works on files, whereas dump works on the underlying filesystem. This means that dump will only work on ufs filesystems. If you are looking to backup a filesystem over samba/nfs, then dump won't work. I personally use dump, wherever possible. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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