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Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 1996 17:43:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper)
To:        tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Cc:        nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199608152143.RAA20231@elmer.picker.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608151734.MAA16903@plains.nodak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Aug 15, 96 12:34:18 pm

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Mark Tinguely:
 |>    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.

We can't mount VFAT and keep the long filenames yet, can we?  This is one
caveat of using mentioned mount/{tar,cpio} technique (unless I missed a
VFAT announcement -- I think Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> is
working on adding this).

Randall Hopper
rhh@ct.picker.com




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