Which backup program should one use? Was Re: Risks of backing up live mounted filesystems using dump(8)

Ashley ashley at softwareshack.co.za
Tue Mar 2 06:30:59 UTC 2010


Also take a look at star
(much the same as tar, but improved)

I have been using star with good results.
A limitation I found with tar was long filenames, with multiple tapes.
Was not supposed to be a limitation, but crashed every time.

Best Regards
ashley

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