Re: tar vs dump
"Scott Taylor" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.admin |
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On Tue, August 15, 2006 19:05, [email protected] 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 [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html