On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 13:11 -0700, ToddAndMargo wrote:
dump is awesome for backing up servers in the middle of
the night. dump/restore are also blazingly fast
IIRC one reason for that is that they don't walk the directory tree,
they just go through the inode table. This means that restoring
individual files can take a relatively long time (they have to be found
first by reconstructing the path from the root, which can mean a lot of
scanning back and forth), but as that's not the focus it's a reasonable
tradeoff.
poc