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Subject: Re: Slow disk access while rsync - what should I tune?
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:> and the output produced by dump is not live-accessible whereas a
:> snapshot / live filesystem copy is.  That makes the dump fairly
:> worthless for anything other than catastrophic recovery.
:
:Ever heard of "restore -i"?

    Have you ever tried to restore a single file from a 2 Terrabyte dump
    file ?  Or even better, if you are using incremental dumps, try
    restoring a single file from 6 dump files.

    I'm not saying that dump/restore is completely unusable, I'm saying
    that it MOSTLY unusable for the use cases people have today for backups.

    There is a certain convenience to being able to restore a file from
    a live backup in a few seconds verses having to struggle with large
    multi-layered incremental dump/restore files that were designed to be
    spooled off to tape units.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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