Strange msgs from restore;

Rick Stevens ricks at nerd.com
Tue Apr 6 16:41:10 UTC 2010


On 04/06/2010 02:50 AM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 10:46:59PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Dump/restore is a very poor tool to use unless the drives are identical.
>
> Huh?

Yeah, huh?  Dump/restore is filesystem-oriented.  It doesn't give a
tinker's cuss what the underlying storage is.  Gene, are you thinking
"dd", not "dump"?
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