From: "Scott Taylor" <scott@dctchambers.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar vs dump
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:20:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2106.192.168.99.70.1155738058.squirrel@dctchambers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a1eedb70608151905v30b9b12bqe6e0dfc9f3541fc7@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, August 15, 2006 19:05, jassduec@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Which is more reliable and better for taking full and incremental
> backups tar or dump. I like dump more but came across some articles on
> the redhat website with references to emails from Linus which state
> that dump should not be used for backup on a linux system.
>
> Are there some free backup tools on linux which can take fast and
> reliable full and incremental backups? I have been doing backup on
> Solaris for years now and never had any issue with ufsdump, ufsrestore
> and snapshots. Is it possible to get similar reliability on linux.
I use BRU, it's not free but it's not expensive either. It's very
reliable, and does what you are asking. Nothing wrong with tar though.
--
Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-16 2:05 tar vs dump jassduec
2006-08-16 14:20 ` Scott Taylor [this message]
2006-08-16 15:27 ` Axl Purushu
2006-08-18 22:07 ` Art Wildman
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