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- From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
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- Subject: Re: There's dump, but come on, what do you *really* use - eh?
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 23:08:01 GMT
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- dab7w@beech.cs.Virginia.EDU (Duff Browne) writes:
- > soft links from one partition to another
- > will not be retained
-
- I assume you mean that the actual file that the symbolic link points to
- isn't backed up. Well, true, though I would consider it a serious bug if it
- did that since the symbolic link file itself is data that I want backed up.
-
- > It looks like tar makes it a lot easier to restore individual files from the
- > middle of a tape.
-
- How so? You have to start reading from the beginning of the dump file in
- both cases (assuming standard Ultrix dump and tar).
-
- > what problems are we going to run into because of this choice?
-
- Tar doesn't deal with sparse files intelligently though GNU tar might.
-
- You might also take at look at DECnsr. It's not free, but it looks like a
- nice product if you have multiple machines that need to be backed up.
-
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