🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Edward S. Marshall wrote:

> > dump(8) and restore(8) have never made it out of alpha code for ext2 under
> > Linux.  They behave fairly unpredicably; I've been trying to do remote
> > dump under ssh and I get consistent "master/slave protocol botched" errors
> > and I'm not even using rdump.
> 
> Again, something wrong with tar? Works like a charm for me every time, and
> should work just fine over ssh sessions.

We use dump since tar isn't as good at handling incremental backups.  dump
is convenient, handles special files well, and restores quite nicely.  I
consider it far superior to tar.

> The "master/slave protocol botched" sounds like a problem with ssh...you
> sure you were using an 8bit-clean connection?

Yup.  Cleared out the escape sequence and everything.  Hell, on this
machine, dump has trouble merely dumping to a plain file.  Same error and
everything.

--Michael

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