From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 4 06:57:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA04894 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:57:15 -0700 Received: from Mabuse.Vir.com (News.Vir.com [199.84.154.68]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04876 for ; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 06:57:11 -0700 Received: from zeta.avenet.com by Vir.com (8.6.10/2.0) id IAA00146; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 08:48:55 -0500 Received: (from rjbproc@localhost) by zeta.avenet.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA00706; Mon, 4 Sep 1995 09:56:02 GMT Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 09:56:02 +0000 () From: Robert Burns X-Sender: rjbproc@zeta.avenet.com To: Carl Benoit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are we "safe" with dump(8) ? In-Reply-To: <199509040346.XAA01830@planete.planete.qc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, Carl Benoit wrote: > 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. > I've been using dump/restore for some time and I have not experienced any problems. I had restore a few files after my upgrade to 2.0.5 and all went well. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Burns (rjbproc@vir.com) Mtl., Ca. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------