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From: Axl Purushu <anup.purushu@katalystpartners.com>
To: scott@dctchambers.com
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tar vs dump
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:57:35 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E33967.2060308@katalystpartners.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2106.192.168.99.70.1155738058.squirrel@dctchambers.com>

rdiff-backup is a good tool. It is free.

-Anup

Scott Taylor wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Scott
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16 15:27 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
2006-08-16 15:27   ` Axl Purushu [this message]
2006-08-18 22:07 ` Art Wildman

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