[BBLISA] Help with backups

[Rudie, Tony]

 Indeed, tar is an archiving tool (name derivation: Tape ARchive); dump is a backup tool.  


 - Tony Rudié 

-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 1:03 AM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: RE: [BBLISA] Help with backups

> Until we get a better backup strategy, I'm backing up the 
> workstations to the server via mounting a shared samba drive to /mnt.
> 


I am going to suggest dump.