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Re: Is gnu tar as safe as dump ?

2005-05-10 11:30:19
Subject: Re: Is gnu tar as safe as dump ?
From: Dave Sherohman <dsherohman AT westling DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:03:44 -0500 
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:31:46AM -0400, Guy Dallaire wrote:
> I plan to use gnu tar instead of dump to take my amanda backups. Is it
> as stable/safe as dump/ufsdump ? I need to be able to exclude files,
> that's why I use gnu tar.

There are those who believe that tar is safer than dump, at least when
running under Linux/ext2fs.  Linus Torvalds is one of them, although
there are plenty of others who say that there's no significant difference
either way.
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