From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 25 17:33:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129C714BE6 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 1999 17:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA11344 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 02:33:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA42265 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 02:09:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: dump / backups Date: 26 Nov 1999 02:09:20 +0100 Message-ID: <81kmk0$198e$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG keith@mail.telestream.com> wrote: > Looking for peoples comments on using dump as a backup utility. > Good? Bad? Good. > Alternatives? Well, there's the tar/cpio/pax crowd. I don't think of those as alternatives though, but rather as fallback options if dump isn't applicable, not available, etc. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message