On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 00:18 +1000, Crossfire wrote: > [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.
What about tar against an LVM snapshot? Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
