dick hoogendijk writes:
> On Dec 14 Gary wrote:
> > 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.
> 

I use dump/restore for doing backups to tape, not for cloning file
systems. ``restore -i'' is nice because it lets the user pick and
choose which files (s)he ( non-sexist :) wants to restore beforehand.
That's what I was thinking of when I wrote the above. And of course,
dump/restore are the standard way to backup file systems to tape in
the *NIX world.

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