On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:05:57PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> 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.
and
> Most of the comments I've read on this list from folks who have run
> dump, seem to be less than enthusiastic after it bites them in a
> recovery attempt.
and more.
Personally, I am a content dump user and I never had any problem
recovering. As far as I remember I have not seen any, or more than tar,
failed recovery attempts on this mailinglist.
Last week I decided to find out about the dump scare, as I seemed to
remember that someone on this list said that dump is more or less as
safe as tar is, given normal usage.
Despite all my searching, I couldn't find that message on the list again.
However, I found something better: the official word from the dump
authors.
Here it is. http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html
I encourage anyone interested to read it.
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