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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:30:40 +0200
From:      Lutz Albers <lutz@muc.de>
To:        ishort@pcm.co.za
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Backup Software
Message-ID:  <v03005b1dad86a369f5ac@[193.174.4.22]>

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Hi,

-Well, I can backup up my system using find and cpio now, thanks to
-some help from the mailing list archives, but I must say I don't like
-it too much.

I wouldn't use cpio (or tar) to backup my system. They both have problems
with special files, sparse file and files with long names. You should
better use dump/restore instead. I' using the following command:
	dump 0uBf <nr-of-kblocks-on-tape> <tape-device> <file-system>
Repeat foreach file system.

ciao
  lutz


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