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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:36:41 +0100
From:      Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com>
To:        "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lisandro Grullon <lisandrogrullon07@hotmail.com>
Subject:   Re: How to use dump?
Message-ID:  <eeef1a4c0708290736id8795a8oa479c68522f00ce2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070829153832.I13181@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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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.



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