Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:09:29 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Artem Koutchine <matrix@chat.ru> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backup tools/strategy Message-ID: <20000618020928.C278@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <018701bfd883$17255060$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>; from matrix@chat.ru on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:40:11PM %2B0400 References: <018701bfd883$17255060$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru>
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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
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