On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Wunder wrote: > Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > > All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently using > > Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something "better" out there. > > So, who's using what? I want unattended, robust, stable operation. I'm using > > a Seagate DDs2 drive to do the backups (SCSI). > > Thanks > > > > Pardon my ignorance, but is it bad to just use dump to backup data? Or tar?
I saw a reference that Linus considered dump to be brain damaged or something to that affect and should not be used with 2.4 kernels or newer. WRT to tar I still like it and in fact Netbackup, which somebody made reference to, uses tar as the "engine" for data transfer from disk to backup media. If Netbackup, or more precisely the database it maintains, goes south, you still have access to the date on your removable media. Sadly the price of NetBackup is a small but significant portion of the nation's GDP. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
