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From: gabby@gabs.lbl.gov (Gabby Obegi)
Subject: Re: Do NOT use ftio or cpio for backups
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
References: <WAYNE.91Jun7172758@dsndata.uucp> <2268@seti.inria.fr>
Message-ID: <14155@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
X-Local-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 19:53:22 PDT
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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 91 02:53:22 GMT
Distribution: comp

In article <2268@seti.inria.fr> tm@othello.altair.fr (Timothy Mullins) writes:
>>anyway, i guess fbackup, dd or dump are then _only_ commands you
>>should be using for backups.
>
>That is very bad news. I cannot use dump either because it cannot handle
>Context Dependent Files.
>Do'nt we just love HP.

We've been using dump for over a year now and have had great luck with it.  As
a matter of fact, six month ago we lost over 500Mb of data when the inode for /
got corrupt.  Even though this was the root disk with CDF's on it, we were able
to recover the disk entirely!

--
-Gab
