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> If Linus says a program will eat my data and is generally stupid, I tend to believe him :) > > 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. Not really - I'm only interested in backing up a few things like home directories, web sites, and possibly /etc. Right now I just have one big partition so dump would back up e.g. all of /usr, which isn't needed for me. Also, dump's filesystem-specific nature is very annoying.
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