From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 10 6:32:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-5-187.zoominternet.net [24.154.5.187]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DAD37BDEF for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:32:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18490 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:34:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:34:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An sblock magic number is... In-Reply-To: <20000810004633.A74732@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 - | 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message