using dump

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:20:18AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> I always use rsnapshot to backup. See here:
> http://www.rsnapshot.org/
> maybe that will suit your need.
> 
> Another option, use Mondo Rescue to backup to CD:
> http://www.mondorescue.org/

Both are good choices.

> 
> I found that 'dump' is not reliable in linux machines. I vaguely recall there 
> is even a risk of corruption that was mentioned by Linus Torvalds in the 
> linux kernel mailing list, so he deprecated that. I don't know what the 
> situation with 'dump' is now though, so my statement maybe obsolete.

FUD.  http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html

dump home page:  http://dump.sourceforge.net/

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
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