Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!gabs.lbl.gov!gabby From: gabby@gabs.lbl.gov (Gabby Obegi) Subject: Re: Do NOT use ftio or cpio for backups Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley References: <2268@seti.inria.fr> Message-ID: <14155@dog.ee.lbl.gov> X-Local-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 19:53:22 PDT Reply-To: gabby@lbl.gov () Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 02:53:22 GMT Distribution: comp In article <2268@seti.inria.fr> tm@othello.altair.fr (Timothy Mullins) writes: >>anyway, i guess fbackup, dd or dump are then _only_ commands you >>should be using for backups. > >That is very bad news. I cannot use dump either because it cannot handle >Context Dependent Files. >Do'nt we just love HP. We've been using dump for over a year now and have had great luck with it. As a matter of fact, six month ago we lost over 500Mb of data when the inode for / got corrupt. Even though this was the root disk with CDF's on it, we were able to recover the disk entirely! -- -Gab