On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 21:32, Colin Walters wrote: > 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 :) "In the future, dump's problems will be solved by snapshots." The future is now, eh? > > > 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. This is no longer accurate. You can use dump to backup selected directories. You don't have to backup the entire fs. Dax Kelson
