Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:34:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An sblock magic number is... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008100932060.18465-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20000810004633.A74732@keltia.freenix.fr>
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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Wilko Bulte:
> > Guessing: superblock?
>
> Yes.
>
> Our dump is only able to backup complete filesystems. Historically, SunOS' one
> is able to backup partial FS (i.e. directories) and ironically, when Rémy Card
> (of ext2fs fame) ported it to Linux, he added back that functionality.
Short of that, this should work, shouldn't it?
ssh user@host tar cvf - <dir> | gzip -c > myarchive.tgz
If not, then pipe it to dd first, then gzip it.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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