On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:09 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:48 PM -0400 Colin Walters > <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Well, it's not quite the same thing. You can't safely dump a live > > filesystem, making it unusable for me. > > An explanation of the issue and why it not be an issue, depending on the > situation: > > <http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html> > > > Also it's far less granular than an archiver like tar or dar. > > It sounded like you were doing filesystem-level backups (including > incrementals), not archives of isolated directory trees. Dump is very good > for that. > > Do you use any sparely allocated files? How is tar at handling those? > Dump's restore will restore all the holes as holes, instead of allocating > zero-filled disk blocks. tar has a flag for handling sparse files. -sv
