From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Axl Purushu Subject: Re: tar vs dump Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:57:35 +0530 Message-ID: <44E33967.2060308@katalystpartners.com> References: <3a1eedb70608151905v30b9b12bqe6e0dfc9f3541fc7@mail.gmail.com> <2106.192.168.99.70.1155738058.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <2106.192.168.99.70.1155738058.squirrel@dctchambers.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: scott@dctchambers.com Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org 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. > > -- > Scott > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >