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.

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