Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 06:51:27 -0400 From: Damien Tougas <damien@carroll.com> To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com> Cc: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: dump vs tar? Message-ID: <707940000.989405487@sprig.tougas.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010509123848.mj@isy.liu.se>
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--On Wednesday, May 09, 2001 12:38:48 +0200 Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> wrote: > 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. It is also worth noting that tar has a path limitation of 250 characters. This can be a bit of a pain if you have very deeply nested directores. There are ways around this, but it can sometimes be a bit of a pain. --- Damien Tougas Systems Administrator Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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