Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:49:08 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> 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: <20010727084908.B8642@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010727161811.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:18:11PM %2B0930 References: <20010727084117.A8642@freebie.xs4all.nl> <XFMail.20010727161811.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:18:11PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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 :) Sure. [I love my DLT4000 ;-) ] -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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