GNU-tar vs dump(1)
David Goodenough
dg at lakart.UUCP
Wed Jan 4 03:03:13 AEST 1989
>From article <17999 at adm.BRL.MIL>, by nvt9001 at 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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