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Cc: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System
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> purpose.  (tar is fine for archives of static hierarchies, but it is not
> suitable for full-system backups.)  Dump fully supports the concept of
> full/partial backups in a robust manner.  (It has other useful features

dump is perfect. period.