From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 10:08:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA12427 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA12422 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA16620; Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:02:31 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604021802.LAA16620@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Backup Software To: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 11:02:31 -0700 (MST) Cc: ishort@pcm.co.za, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Lutz Albers" at Apr 2, 96 11:30:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > -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 > Repeat foreach file system. I wouldn't backup special files. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.