Re: Configuration help?
2002-08-20 03:48:08
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Tread lightly -- thar be dragons here. :) They both have their pros and
> cons, and it can be a matter of deep seated religous belief for people.
> FS specific dump programs can back up things that tar doesn't know about
> (e.g. ACLs), and can sometimes be faster. But they're limited to
> partitions only, and require that the recovery machine have them
> installed. Tar can do subdirectories and doesn't care about OS/FS (and
> thus you can recover on just about any machine).
Hmm.. odd, I have been using a dumptype using ufsdump for just
subdirectories and it appears to be working. Or maybe amanda is smarter
than me, notices it and switches them to using tar instead. :)
--
Conny Gyllendahl
His mind is like a steel trap: full of mice.
-- Foghorn Leghorn
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