From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 13: 7:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de (moutvdom00.kundenserver.de [195.20.224.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9506737B403 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuehl@lgk.de) Received: from [195.20.224.208] (helo=mrvdom01.schlund.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15PrQ7-0000eo-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:07:43 +0200 Received: from p3ee2e2dd.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([62.226.226.221] helo=heath.lgk.de) by mrvdom01.schlund.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 15PrQ7-0000NO-00; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:07:43 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:08:22 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: kuehl@lgk.de From: kuehl@lgk.de To: James Howard Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Neither tar nor cpio is suitable for backup purposes. Well, my answer wasn't sufficiently exact. The question behind is whether you want to back up a number of files or a file system. For the latter case you need a tool that has sufficient knowledge of the file system. Therefore >> Use dump instead. ...for saving file systems. ~ ~ >> BTW this is a subject for -questions rather than -hackers. > > I sent this to hackers hoping someone would say suitable modifications to > tar/cpio/pax could be made :) Eventually that would lead to another dump(8-) Lars To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message