Re: [Dump-users] Linus says dump is dead.

[Bernhard R. E. <be...@be...>]

> A couple months ago, I gave a demo (in RH 7.1) on dump/restore to a
> local Linux Users Group.  I created a difficult file system, copied it
> with dump and tar and compared them.  It had special devices, long
> path names, hard links, names with funny characters, long symlinks,
> broken symlinks, strange permissions, dates far into the past and
> future, files with holes, nulls, etc.

Sounds like "Torture-testing Backup and Archive Programs: Things You
Ought to Know But Probably Would Rather Not":
http://berdmann.dyndns.org/doc/dump/zwicky/testdump.doc.html