From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 3 14:27:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA26854 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 14:27:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA26844 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 14:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA07508; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:26:43 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id XAA04418; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:26:16 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.5/keltia-uucp-2.8) id XAA12236; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:05:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199607032105.XAA12236@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:05:38 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607030526.HAA15745@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jul 3, 96 07:26:54 am" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2178 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that J Wunsch said: > This is however only useful when _not_ using the `u' flag. Not only in this case. Something which is great with dump is the interactive restore part of it... > Since dump works i-node wise, the question is how to handle partial > dumps if not all hard links of a file are to be backed up. This would > end in a restore that could break their links. I agree this can be a problem. > > 2. use of the old format to be able to view or restore on something other > > than 4.4BSD as the dump in 4.4BSD-based system is only recoverable from > > another one. > > What are the differences? Handling of directories and some different sizes I think. Ask Rémy, he gave me the details but I forgot them :-) > compatibility could use it. (I for myself have half a dozen or more > 4.4BSD systems around, but not even a single 4.2BSD/4.3BSD derivative, > so it's apparently a moot point for me. :) Well I used to have a SunOS laptop and sometimes, being able to cope with dumps made on it would have been useful. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #12: Sun Jun 30 14:10:07 MET DST 1996