[plug] suggestions for fast and simple whole linux disk backu p?

[Carl Gherardi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Brooks [mailto:leon at brooks.fdns.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 9:20 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] suggestions for fast and simple whole linux disk
> backup?
> 
> 
> On Thursday 23 May 2002 18:20, Daniel wrote:
> > just lost a hard disk and hoping for a simple method to 
> backup a whole
> > linux disk in future.
> 
> man dump
> 
> Cheers; Leon
>

I may be wrong but wasn't the recommendation some time ago(with the
introduction of 2.4) never to use dump as it was broken and broduced corrupt
backups in a lot of instances?

I remeber seeing this somewhere on lwn around a year ago.

Carl