On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:53:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 23 October 2003 09:32, Dan Willis wrote:
> >Hello. I am still experimenting with my Amanda setup. I have
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> Generally speaking, dump is not the prefered utility for use with 
> amanda.  We seem to have gradually come to prefer tar, in any version 
> 1.13-19 or higher.

Gene, though that is the conventional wisdom for Linux ext2/ext3
because of kernel buffer inconsistency issues, I don't think Dan
mentioned his OS; for some OS's, like Solaris, (ufs)dump is arguably
the preferred solution unless you require excludes or subdirectories.

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