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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 1996 19:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hard reading error
Message-ID:  <Pine.PTX.3.91.960409192951.24231L-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199604100253.MAA19083@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> Richard Chang stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > Yes.  You'll want a tape drive, or you can do it through a pipe if you have
> > > the two disks in the same machine.
> > 
> > 	How exactly do you do it if the two disks are in the same machine?
> 
> If you're using csh, something like this :
> 
> # cd /dead_filesystem
> # dump 0bf 10000000 - | (cd /new_filesystem; restore rvf -)

	Hmmm, thanks!  I always either tar and untar or just do a cp -R
but never used dump and restore before...

> Read the manpages for dump and restore _first_.

	Will do and thanks again!

Richard




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