[Suns-at-Home] Backup

[der Mouse]

>> Elizabeth Zwicky did a torture-test suite for backup programs;

> The torture test is at:
> 	http://reality.sgi.com/zwicky_neu/testdump.doc.html

Ah, thanks.  reality.sgi.com has the won't-frag disease, so I couldn't
easily check it myself.

> Really a great read, particularly the conclusion.  It would be
> interesting to see how things have changed and to include more of the
> commerical products.

Speaking of how things have changed...if I might be permitted a brief
moment of own-horn-blowing, my tar (when used correctly, of course)
does as well as possible against the Zwicky tests.  (By which I mean it
gets everything right except the dynamic tests, and produces reasonable
results for those - in particular, it doesn't break.  If you're not
using Berkeley-FFS filesystems (what SunOS calls 4.2, Solaris calls
ufs, NetBSD calls ffs, etc), it can't read the filesystem directly and
hence gets a few more tests wrong.)

					der Mouse

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