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Subject: Re: Questions about 2.0.5-R
To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 13:49:29 -0700 (PDT)
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> On Tue, 13 Jun 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote:

> > Anyways, I am preparing to upgrade my main server.  Can 2.0.5-R read my
> > old (2.0-950322-SNAP) partitions?  The reason I ask is because I don't
> > really completely trust my tape drive, and I'd like to dump all of my
> > old filesystems to a large scratch disk that I have on hand and then
> > simply recreate my partitions and restore /usr/local and such.

> 	why not cpio'ing the data to a file on the scratch disk, install 
> 2.0.5R, and then bring the data back.   after all, the floppies and the 
> install use cpio to create 2.0.5R.

That's not a bad option, but unfortunately, I have five filesystems to
back up, but I only want to restore three and part of the other two.
I've never used cpio for this sort of thing.