Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:18:11 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= <kuehl@lgk.de>, James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Message-ID: <XFMail.20010727161811.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010727084117.A8642@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 27-Jul-2001 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:46:24PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261449560.14427-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> James > > Howard writes: > > : A lot of people said this. Why? As near as I can tell, dump isn't that > > : great either. There is no way to exlude specific directories with dump > > : and it appears to be quite painful to restore a specific directory > > : (though > > : I could be wrong about this. > > Restore in interactive mode (-i) is pretty good for this kind of thing. But it still sucks for backing up when you _know_ you don't want everything and you couldn't even if you wanted it because your backup media is too small.. ie selectivity is good :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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