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	Lisandro Grullon <lisandrogrullon07@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to use dump?
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Hi,

On 29/08/2007, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>
> dump doesn't copy files to files, but files to raw device (partition,
> tape, DVD) or to one/few big files.


Dump is used to back up a file system and can write that data to a file. It
doesn't have to write to a raw device.

To dump /home to /backup, do something like "dump 0auf /backup/home.dump
/home".

Frem.