On Dec 14 Gary wrote: > dick hoogendijk writes: >> What's the (dis)advantage of inode-per-inode cloning?
> I just made the comment re: inode-per-inode because AFAIK that's the > way dump/restore will work. Ok w/ me. Don't know too much the ins-and-outs of backup progs yet, so I was (am) curious about the (dis)advantages of the most well-known-ones. People always mention dump/restore.. > I'm not aware of an advantage or disadvantage to using dump/restore > (except for restoring from tape) Hmmm, I don't have a tape-unit unfortunately. Always clone to another harddive. Not quite sure what you mean right here. > but thought that cpdup might be easier to understand and use. This is absolutely true afaik. Cpdub is a very nice program and very easy to handle. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.7 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message