> Which backup program is best? dump, says some people. Elizabeth D. Zwicky > torture tested lots of backup programs. The clear choice for preserving > all your data and all the peculiarities of Unix filesystems is dump, she > stated. Elizabeth created filesystems containing a large variety of > unusual conditions (and some not so unusual ones) and tested each program > by do a backup and restore of that filesystems. The peculiarities > included: files with holes, files with holes and a block of nulls, files > with funny characters in their names, unreadable and unwriteable files, > devices, files that change size during the backup, files that are > created/deleted during the backup and more. She presented the results at > LISA V in Oct. 1991.
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