Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:29:18 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Joe Parks <pleaseworky@hotmail.com> Cc: chris@fedde.littleton.co.us, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: will dump / restore work on directories rather than filesystems ? Message-ID: <20011229012918.G93411@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <F112Jp9PYRjzJ2ObbJA0001248a@hotmail.com>; from pleaseworky@hotmail.com on Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:52:02AM -0700 References: <F112Jp9PYRjzJ2ObbJA0001248a@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 01:52:02AM -0700, Joe Parks wrote:
>
> Any suggestions on how to accomplish this without big ugly hacks involving
> find and altering file dates and such ? I am just afraid to use tar, since
> /dev - like special files are involved, etc...and it has been made clear
> time and time again that dump is all that you can use...
No, I'd just dump the whole filesystem.
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