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Date:      Fri, 4 Aug 1995 10:23:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Backup of 32bit dev entries
Message-ID:  <199508040823.KAA17174@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199508031705.TAA00938@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Aug 3, 95 07:05:12 pm

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As Julian Howard Stacey wrote:
> 
> 
> I've forgotten what we've got left that still works to make backups
> of current /dev entries.  I tried these:

> 	find . -print | cpio -o > /tmp/ttt
> 		cpio: sd0 not dumped: device number would be truncated

	find . | cpio -o -H crc > /tmp/ttt

> 	dump 0f /tmp/ttt .
> 		DUMP: bad sblock magic number	The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

RTFM.  dump can only handle _file systems_, so make this

	dump 0f /tmp/ttt /usr

(Certainly not the best idea to dump it to /tmp however. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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