[PLUG] Backing up to DVD?

[Dan Haskell]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Don Buchholz wrote:
> Dan Haskell wrote:
> 
> >Linus: "Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it behind."
> >
> ... and I suspect Linus has never had a job that involved helping
> someone restore a "missing file .... somewhere on the xxxx file share
> ... last week, I think".  Being able to load a tape, and then sit down
> with the user while we browse for the missing entity has been a
> God-send.  (I've even had a couple of instances where after it was
> found on tape, we go back to the server and lo-and-behold, there it
> is!  ... in a folder that wasn't searched in the first place.)

I just want to be clear here that my complaint was with the author's
interpretation of Linus' intent, not with dump it's self.