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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU-tar vs dump(1)
Message-ID: <381@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 17:03:13 GMT
References: <17999@adm.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <17999@adm.BRL.MIL>, by nvt9001@BELVOIR-EMH3.ARMY.MIL (DoN Nichols):
> 
> 	Can anyone out there in wizard-land tell me any reason why I
> should continue to use dump(1) for system backups given the capabilities
> in the latest release of tar(1) from GNU?

Does it do interactive restores? (I don't know - I've not seen the docs
on GNU tar, so I'm asking out of genuine curiosity, not sarcasm)
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