Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:27:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? Message-ID: <199607040627.IAA20049@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199607032105.XAA12236@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Jul 3, 96 11:05:38 pm"
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > > This is however only useful when _not_ using the `u' flag. > > Not only in this case. Something which is great with dump is the > interactive restore part of it... Umm, no, -u means to update /etc/dumpdates, for incremental dumps. Of course, recording a dump date there implies you've been backing up everything. > > What are the differences? > > Handling of directories and some different sizes I think. Ask Rémy, he gave > me the details but I forgot them :-) The question is why 4.4BSD decided to give up the old format. I'm not against a compatibility options, as long as it remains non-default (so we would default to what we used to have). > Well I used to have a SunOS laptop and sometimes, being able to cope with > dumps made on it would have been useful. You could have compiled 4.4BSD's dump(8) there. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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