Re: [LUG] Tape Backup

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Kai Hendry wrote:

> In one of my jobs, we just used dd to dump a whole partition to tape.
> Can't remember the command line unfortunately, it was straight forward,
> except for some block size change that was system dependent.
>
> Forget GUIs!

I'd have thought that the advantage of something like tar or Sun's ufsdump 
(not tried linux dump) is that when doing a restore you'te not forced to 
restore the entire filesystem.

Alex.

-- 
What goes "Pieces of seven! Pieces of seven!"?
A parroty error.


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