On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Simon Andrews wrote: > > We've used dump/restore for our backups since way back in RH7.x. > > It's worth noting that Linus Torvalds believes the program to be > terminally broken: > http://lwn.net/2001/0503/a/lt-dump.php3 > > He writes: > So anybody who depends on "dump" getting backups right is already > playing russian rulette with their backups. It's also worth noting that the developers of dump think that the risks are overstated. http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
