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- From: dab7w@beech.cs.Virginia.EDU (Duff Browne)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: There's dump, but come on, what do you *really* use - eh?
- Keywords: HELP! dump backup
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.181600.1478@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 18:16:00 GMT
- Sender: A confused VMS guru in Ultrix Land
- Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
- Lines: 21
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- A colleague and I have been playing at administering a couple of Ultrix
- systems, but we're really much more VMS knowledgeable. Anyway, we want
- to Do The Right Thing(tm) in terms of backups. So - we have these questions
- to toss everyone's way.
-
- It looks like dump is the preferred way to gather partitions onto magnetic
- media. It also appears that soft links from one partition to another
- will not be retained by the process of dump/restore. Wouldn't it be nice
- if it could retain those links, or does it matter all that much. Why?
-
- It looks like tar makes it a lot easier to restore individual files from the
- middle of a tape. Is this true, or have we just not got our act together?
- (Be nice, now).
-
- So, the bottom line is, what should we be using to backup our user and system
- files on our DECstations or DECsystem NFS server - tar or dump - and what
- problems are we going to run into because of this choice?
-
- Please be gentle. Thanks!
-
- Duff Browne
-