Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:40:43 -0600 From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011275319.cd3c92@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Backup using TAR Message-ID: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGKECEDIAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com> In-Reply-To: <15424.16055.50801.150619@guru.mired.org>
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> Yeah - replace "tar" with "dump". Tar was designed to be a tool > archiving and sharing data in unixoid file trees. Dump was designed to > back up and restore FreeBSD's file systems. The similarity in the > requirements for the two tasks ends not far past "copy the data in the > files to the media". > > Even if you don't do that, you might consider adding --compress and > changing the file extension to .tar.gz. Can dump be used to write to a file which can then be written to CD-ROM? - Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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