From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 08:48:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1566E16A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:48:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED4143D58 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:47:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:47:58 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:47:59 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050407104759.1475f3f0.dick@nagual.st> Organization: nagual SiTe X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: dump question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dick@nagual.st List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:48:05 -0000 Hi, Need some reassurance on this: # dump -h0 -0f - /usr | gzip > /filelocation/filename.dump.gz Will this produce a good dumpfile of "/usr" ? I mean, witghout gzip it would have probably be something like "dump -h0 -0f /filelocation/filename.dump /tmp" am I right? Because I am a little short on space I want to use gzip though. Thanks. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11 ++ FreeBSD 5.3 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja