[plug] Backups

[James Devenish]

In message <410606A1.2070906 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:39:13PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> The time honoured approach is using an archiver like tar, pax, or cpio. 

Absolutely. One note about `dump` recovery (merely as an example to
contrast against pax, tar, and cpio): it restores inodes, folder
timestamps, driver nodes, ACLs, etc, which tar won't necessarily do.
But the obvious downside is that `dump` tools are filesystem-specific
and the format is not particularly 'transparent and portable' in the
same way as others.