From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 12 14:39:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from indigo.quadrant.net (indigo.quadrant.net [207.195.92.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A8237B400 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from git2000 (56K76.quadrant.net [207.195.92.76]) by indigo.quadrant.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA09715; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:39:03 -0600 (CST) From: "Scott Gerhardt" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Subject: RE: Backup using TAR Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:40:43 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <15424.16055.50801.150619@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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