Re: Linus Torvald's opinion on Dump.

[Daniel David Benson]

Why not?  Have you seen/had problems with recent versions of gnu tar, or
Sun's bundled tar?  I have seen problems with versions of tars 
interacting with each other, but not when using the same version/vendor.  
I do find it a bit strange that you would trust dump over tar regardless
of the comments made by Mr. Torvalds as far as data integrity goes.  I
definitely would prefer to use dump as well over tar, becuase of the speed
issues and the modification date issues, but if indeed what Linus says
is true.....

-Dan
 


On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> 
> :>Or you could just use gtar....
> :
> :As long as you don't mind altering the last access time of every file
> :that is backed up.
> 
> That and tar of any flavor is not something I would willingly entrust
> backups to.
> 
> Jamie Bowden
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