From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 27 5:39:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1A2D37B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 05:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 62184 invoked by uid 100); 27 Jul 2001 12:39:35 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15201.24839.319470.91095@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:39:35 -0500 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= , James Howard , Warner Losh Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda In-Reply-To: References: <20010727084117.A8642@freebie.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Daniel O'Connor types: > > 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 :) So are multi-volume backups and properly designed file system layouts. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message