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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:34:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
To:        justin@spacehog.structured.net, nik@blueberry.co.uk
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199608151734.MAA16903@plains.nodak.edu>

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>    Mount your Win 95 partition and read about 'dump'. Dump your Win 95
>  partition to the tape, but be forewarned that whatever long filenames you
>  have will be truncated to their 8.3 counterparts.

I think you want to use "tar", or "cpio". Dump uses the raw devices and
expects a Unix filesystem, whereas tar and cpio use emulated filesystem.

--mark.



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