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Date:      Wed, 09 May 2001 23:56:30 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
To:        Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
Cc:        Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, "FreeBSD-questions (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dump vs tar?
Message-ID:  <3AFA3B9E.627855F7@DougBarton.net>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105091106370.79177-100000@husten.security.at12.de>

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Paul Herman wrote:

> In practice, the differences between dump and tar are miniscule.  

	One important difference is that only dump will preserve file system flags
like schg, etc. If that's not important to you, or you won't be using your
backups to create complete new file systems, tar is generally more
flexible. 

Doug

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