On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Tread lightly -- thar be dragons here. :) They both have their pros and > cons, and it can be a matter of deep seated religous belief for people. > FS specific dump programs can back up things that tar doesn't know about > (e.g. ACLs), and can sometimes be faster. But they're limited to > partitions only, and require that the recovery machine have them > installed. Tar can do subdirectories and doesn't care about OS/FS (and > thus you can recover on just about any machine). > > It's all a matter of choice. Basically I agree with Joshua, with one addition. For Linux systems stick with tar. dump on Linux is, well, not know for being robust. -Mitch
