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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:34:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        rand@meridian-enviro.com (Douglas K. Rand)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tar
Message-ID:  <199903010334.WAA01328@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <14041.59710.83701.737431@deneb.meridian-enviro.com> from "Douglas K. Rand" at "Feb 28, 99 07:11:26 pm"

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Douglas K. Rand wrote,
> In using tar to do a backup of the root file system...
[snip]

> Are there any
> reasons anybody thinks I shouldn't use the latest GNU tar?

Not that I am aware. But there are reasons you might want to use dump
rather than tar for backups. See,

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook138.html

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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