On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lars Kühl wrote:
> Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes.
> Use dump instead.
A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that
great either. There is no way to exlude specific directories with dump
and it appears to be quite painful to restore a specific directory (though
I could be wrong about this.
> BTW this is a subject for -questions rather than -hackers.
I sent this to hackers hoping someone would say suitable modifications to
tar/cpio/pax could be made :)
Jamie
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