[rescue] backups?

[Linc Fessenden]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Big Endian wrote:

> >Home LAN.  Linux, HP/UX 10.20, NetBSD, SCO OSRV, Solaris soon.
> >DDS2 tape drive hanging off a Sparcstation.
> >should I use cpio, dump, or tar?
> 
> dump.  then copy all of the dump files over nfs to the sparc box and 
> tar those up onto the tape.  Thats how I do backups and it works 
> great.
> 
> daniel
> 

I just tried dump and I thought it worked pretty good and was easy to
use.  One question for you though is why not use the dump directly to tape
via:
dump -o user at host:/dev/tape /
type of thing?  Worked good here anyway?

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