From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 2:11:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7EDA37B7D4 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0053.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.192.53]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA17089; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA00500; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:09:29 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Artem Koutchine Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup tools/strategy Message-ID: <20000618020928.C278@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <018701bfd883$17255060$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <018701bfd883$17255060$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>; from matrix@chat.ru on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:40:11PM +0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:40:11PM +0400, Artem Koutchine wrote: [snip] > Dump is good (accroding to what man says), but has > a very bad feature - i cannot browse the archive > visually (say, wich midnight commander) Just wanted to point out that this really has nothing to do with dump, but is rather a limitation or feature of the restore program used. There is no reason one could not create a reatore(8)-like program that is "visual." Personally, I'll take the CLI of restore(8) over some of the silly GUI restore-like programs I've dealt with. > and i coould > not find a way to make it compress the files it backups. You can just pipe it through gzip or the compression program of your choice, # dump -0af - / | gzip > root_dump.gz -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message