Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: dump/restore ported to V.2? Message-ID: Date: 27 Sep 90 19:27:03 GMT References: <905@iiasa.UUCP> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: wnp@iiasa.AT's message of 26 Sep 90 21:00:20 GMT On 26 Sep 90 21:00:20 GMT, wnp@iiasa.AT (wolf paul) said: wnp> We run a network with VAXen, Sun Sparcstations, and a few 386 boxes wnp> with ISC 2.2. wnp> In order to have a uniform backup system across all machines, we would wnp> be interested in finding versions of the dump/restore programs for wnp> ISC 2.2. It is particularly important that these versions support the wnp> use of /etc/rmt, the remote magtape daemon. Use GNU tar on all machines. Supports /etc/rmt, is fast, dumps are portable, does incremental save/reload, etc...; there is no need for dump/restor any more, even on BSD. Saving with tar is as fast as saving with dump, because the bottleneck is in any case the tape. Restor is faster than reloading with tar, because of the synchronized ilist writes of hardened file systems, but hopefully reloading is less frequent than saving. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk