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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:34:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An sblock magic number is...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008100932060.18465-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000810004633.A74732@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Wilko Bulte:
> > Guessing: superblock?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Our dump is only able to backup complete filesystems. Historically, SunOS' one
> is able to backup partial FS (i.e. directories) and ironically, when Rémy Card
> (of ext2fs fame) ported it to Linux, he added back that functionality.

    Short of that, this should work, shouldn't it?


    ssh user@host tar cvf - <dir> | gzip -c > myarchive.tgz

    If not, then pipe it to dd first, then gzip it.

--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net




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