Date: 27 Oct 2003 08:49:23 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Backup help. Message-ID: <444qxuyen0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <039701c39c27$e72d0210$0201a8c0@dredster> References: <3718.216.100.130.19.1067208773.squirrel@ns1.valuedj.com> <039701c39c27$e72d0210$0201a8c0@dredster>
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"Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com> writes: > I realize that a lot of folks prefer dump / restore for system backups, > however, to dump to tape, I would recommend using tar since that's what it > does best. As long as the system sees the tape drive, tar -c / dumps > everything to the tape drive. The only problem with that is that you can't do a complete restore from that and have a working system. I use tar for backups, but that's because I'm perfectly happy knowing I'll have to start with a new-system install if I ever need to recover from a disaster. For serious systems, where getting the whole thing back up on a new disk is critical, dump/restore will be *much* better. This is mostly because of tar's limitations; it doesn't restore the filesystem itself, it doesn't handle device files, fifos, and I don't think it has any clue about sparse files.
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