Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 12:38:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: dump vs tar? Message-ID: <XFMail.010509123848.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <000701c0d865$4c60e950$1400a8c0@zoso>
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As pointed out in another response dump works on entire filesystems. The advantage is that a dump can be restored unto a completely new disk. I use dump (and restore) for cloning entire machines. A dumped /-partition is bootable when restored on another disk. If that is not your goal (it isn't, right?) you should stick to tar. On 09-May-01 Otter wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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