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From: carl@planete.qc.ca (Carl Benoit)
Subject: Are we "safe" with dump(8) ?
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Hi there !!

Congratulations for your great work !!

We're presently using freebsd 2.0.5R and everything is working
great !!

We're looking to use the dump/restore utilities as the backup solution
for our web server and we are wondering if there is any restrictions/
known bugs that we should know of. We're presently backing up our
server with cpio and I don't feel very "safe" with this situation   :-\

I've been using dump/ufsdump on SUNOS/SOLARIS for a while and had no
problem with them...

Any comment/suggestions would be very appreciated.


Thanks in advance for your time,

Carl Benoit
Sysadm
carl@planete.qc.ca