[aclug-L] Addendum to tonight's meeting on Tar/Dump

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think I made one thing clear about the difference in using dump vs
tar/kdat/archiver of choice.  Dump requires that you back up *complete file
systems*. That is a complete partition -- you do not get to choose which files
are backed up.  Tar, cpio and others allow you to specify which
files/directories get backed up. This is an important distinction.  When I
dumped the contents of my laptop to tape, I backed up things like my netscape
cache and other temporary files since there's no way to exclude them. When I
used Kdat, I was able to exclude them from archive, saving time and tape space.
I hope this clarifies things.

--dwh

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