From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 3 23:51:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA05812 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA05807 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 23:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA10969 for ; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:51:13 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA12063 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:51:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA20049 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:27:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607040627.IAA20049@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Which tools can back up inodes with 32bit minor numbers ? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 08:27:16 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607032105.XAA12236@keltia.freenix.fr> from Ollivier Robert at "Jul 3, 96 11:05:38 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (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 As Ollivier Robert wrote: > > 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... Umm, no, -u means to update /etc/dumpdates, for incremental dumps. Of course, recording a dump date there implies you've been backing up everything. > > What are the differences? > > Handling of directories and some different sizes I think. Ask Rémy, he gave > me the details but I forgot them :-) The question is why 4.4BSD decided to give up the old format. I'm not against a compatibility options, as long as it remains non-default (so we would default to what we used to have). > Well I used to have a SunOS laptop and sometimes, being able to cope with > dumps made on it would have been useful. You could have compiled 4.4BSD's dump(8) there. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)