That's find to backup that way if you are only doing just a few dirs - or
just like a monthly or incremental backup - but if you have a serious backup
schedule for your computer or network - it's good to have something a bit
more robust than that IMHO.
-Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve" <steve@itcom.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: backup of linux files
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> I use tar with gz option to backup some 10G just fine.
>
> On Saturday 16 February 2002 18:58, you wrote:
> > Anyone familiar with the use of "dump" and "restore" to backup files. I
> > tried the man page for these and tried "dump" on my home partition
> > directory and ended up corrupting the filesystem. Are there
alternatives
> > to the dump and restore program.
> >
> > Thanks, Andy W.
>
> - --
>
> Steve
>
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