Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mathieu@newview.com> wrote:
> > - there is a `dump' command (but it's useless, because it hangs when you
> > run it on mounted filesystems - come on, who REALLY unmounts their
> > filesystems for a nightly dump? You need a 3 way mirror to do it
> > while guaranteeing filesystem availability...)
> According to everybody, dump is deprecated (and it shouldn't work reliably
> with 2.4, in two words: "forget it")...
It's a shame, because `tar' doesn't save things like inode attributes and
places unnecessary load on the VFS layer. It also takes considerably
longer than dump did on one backup server I admin - like ~12 hours to back
up ~26G in ~414k inodes to a tape capable of about 1MB/sec. But that's
probably the old directory hashing thing again, there are some
reeeeaaallllllly large directories on that machine...
Ah, the joys of legacy.
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