Re: tar vs dump
Axl Purushu <[email protected]>
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rdiff-backup is a good tool. It is free. -Anup Scott Taylor wrote: > 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 > > - 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