[PLUG] dump & restore

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Sun Jun 13 19:44:11 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 18:47, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > I've repeatedly tried to convince them that they need a dump program for
> > the folks who feel tar's weaknesses are crucial, but they still haven't
> > written one.
> 
> Elliott,
> 
>   "Them" who?

I think he was speaking of the ReiserFS-people.

>   Well, there's also AMANDA and a bunch of other free software for linux
> available via the Storage Mountain Web site.

AMANDA is really just a wrapper; it internally uses dump or tar.  It's a
system for automating network backups and probably wouldn't help your
friend much.

Wil
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