From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 12 21:31:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA09491 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09485 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:31:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA07154 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 06:31:41 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id GAA26418 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 06:31:22 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id AAA08657; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:07:52 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970613000752.38538@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 00:07:52 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dump/restore with compression References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: ; from Brandon Gillespie on Thu, Jun 12, 1997 at 01:40:51PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3359 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Brandon Gillespie: > Does anybody USE dump/restore anymore? I've been using the Digital Unix Yes, anytime I have to do a backup I use dump. Much easier to deal with, especially when restoring a file, than tar/cpio/pax. > equivalent 'vdump' and 'vrestore' for a while now, and it has a lot more > capability than the older dump/restore (such as compression 8) I'd never use any compression -- except hardware-based like DAT's -- because you can't recover much if your tape have a problem... I'm against compressed file systems for that very reason too. I'd rather buy another disk to have more space. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #18: Sun Jun 8 15:32:28 CEST 1997