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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!knews.uk0.vbc.net!vbcnet-gb!azure.xara.net!xara.net!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: dump and compression Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:27:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5hcbde$c8n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5glaem$io6$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <5gma1u$icd@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> <y7zk9n5cgvk.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> <5h413e$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> <y7zhgi1d2sm.fsf@hzsbc259.nl.lucent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37996 Peter Mutsaers <plm@lucent.com> wrote: > This gives you the features of restore/dump but also nicer tape > administration and compression. Nicer tape administration? Hmm. Ever tried restore -i? :-) Nope. You'd never get me relying on anything else than dump for a serious backup. There are a number of reasons, among them the better handling of the incremental backups (restore can delete files that disappeared between the increments), as well as handling the backup of a `live' filesystem much more gracefully. What's wrong with implementing the compression feature into dump and restore? As i've showed, it's even possible to do it in a backwards- compatible way. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)