Hello all, What's the best way to do backups? Am I better off to use dump, or to just tar up directory structures? I see that dump is nice in that it will break up large files automatically (not sure if tar will do that). I assume that tar defaults to retaining permissions. (I do notice there is -p option) I ran dump the othe rnight for the 1st time ever (& I've been SysOping for 15 years - always tar'd to tape on Solaris, but my linux machines have no access to tape drives, so I've always tar'd to disk) & what I see worries me. I did a (from memory) dump -0 -M /backup/rootdir / The files that were created came out to much less than what was on the system. Thinking maybe compression was somehow involved, I dump'd each directory individually, and found that there was a gross mismatch in overall file size.. I would like to get some help/insight into what's really going on here. Thanks, Tom -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
