dump/restore ported to V.2?

[Piercarlo Grandi]

On 26 Sep 90 21:00:20 GMT, wnp at 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.

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