Jon LaBadie wrote:

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:46:32PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote:

and also because it seems that dump is not reliable on linux?).

Not such a good reason.  Will that old saw never die?

Second that. See:
http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html

(that said, I do use gnutar on my config, mostly because we have
a mixed linux/solaris environment, and need interchangeabiity
to restore to the other OS'es).


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