From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 26 23:48:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6702737B405 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 23:48:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01260; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:18:16 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.7 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010727084117.A8642@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:18:11 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= , James Howard , Warner Losh 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 On 27-Jul-2001 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:46:24PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message 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