Re: [LUG] Marketing Linux

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Charrett wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Stuart Miller - Ablewisp wrote:
>
> > But then perhaps I'm a backup software "fascist", as I haven't liked any
> > backup software on any platform since "dump"/"restore" for Unix
>
>
> It's surprising if you liked dump/restore so much, that you're not using 
> the Linux dump/restore tools.  They work in an almost identical way.

Have they kept pace?

I know when I liked dump/restore you usually only had one type of 
filesystem (although it might vary a little between Unixes).

I suspect the (free) tools haven't kept pace with the varying mysteries 
of filesystems. As such a filesystem agnostic backup tool is desirable 
(as much as that is possible in a backup system, don't want to go down 
the NTFS route and discover I can't completely restore my W2K NTFS 
backups to W2K because we have a directory called "CON" or other 
stupidities). Down that route lies madness, and lost data.

Debian Sarge only appears to have tools for ext2 from BSD, and the only 
place I use ext2 currently, is a virtual linux server, which I can 
backup by other means.

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