On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:07:18AM -0700, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
> Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400:
> > I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle
> > correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an
> > issue of binaries but rather other types of special files.
> > Is thi
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 11:07:18AM -0700, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
> Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400:
> > I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle
> > correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an
> > issue of binaries but rather other types of special files.
> > Is th
Brian Cuttler on Tue 10/05 11:18 -0400:
> I'd understood that the OS native dump could handle
> correctly certain types of files that tar couldn't. Not an
> issue of binaries but rather other types of special files.
> Is this or was this true ?
Well POSIX 1.e ACLs are one of them.
Why GNU tar doe
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:03:44AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:31:46AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> > I plan to use gnu tar instead of dump to take my amanda backups. Is it
> > as stable/safe as dump/ufsdump ? I need to be able to exclude files,
> > that's why I use gn
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:31:46AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> I plan to use gnu tar instead of dump to take my amanda backups. Is it
> as stable/safe as dump/ufsdump ? I need to be able to exclude files,
> that's why I use gnu tar.
There are those who believe that tar is safer than dump, at leas
I plan to use gnu tar instead of dump to take my amanda backups. Is it
as stable/safe as dump/ufsdump ? I need to be able to exclude files,
that's why I use gnu tar.
Also, when I'm done testing amanda, I guess there is some way to
"reinitialize" it's database of tapes and dumps/indexes ? Where sho
