Ya, but didnt someone post that "DUMP" on linux can fail - if the conditions are right? I think is was suggested that SMP systems can demonstrate the failure sooner. I think that Mr. Torvolds ( sorry is i mis-spelled) made that comment or conclusion. Are there some caveats that need to be added here ? /gat
"Bernhard R. Erdmann" wrote: > > > 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. > > This article is archived here: > http://berdmann.dyndns.org/doc/dump/zwicky/testdump.doc.html
