From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 28 15:50:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 598D614D98 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:50:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA10327; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:50:42 -0700 (PDT) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:50:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: Mike Meyer Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does tar do sparse files these days In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: > The handbook says only dump can be trusted. I'm not sure how amanda > fits into this picture. Since amanda normaly uses dump, you should be able to trust it. From a somewhat simplistic point of view, amanda is just a control system to put dumps from multiple machines on a single tape in an inteligent manner. At some point they added a GNU tar option, but you only need that for filesystems without dump equivlents (i.e. ext2fs for quite some time (though it now has a dump program)). -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message