On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 20:09 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:48 PM -0400 Colin Walters walters@redhat.com 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:
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.