[EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said: > Crossfire wrote: > > >Unfortunately, a fsck is not the only tool required in data backup and > > > >recovery - the big issue with reiser for serious deployment has been > >its lack of dump/restore -- something which both ext2 and xfs have. > > > >C. > > > > > Why is dump/restore so critical for recovery? What's wrong with tar/cpio > or other > archiving programs? Is it because they don't keep all the possible > information about > the files?
That, and dump usually offers a guaranty of backup integrity when used against live filesystems. Tar has problems. Big problems. The main one being that nobody can quite agree on the correct representation of certain details that fall outside of the original implemenations. Can't comment on cpio - I don't use it. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
