From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 08:39:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA16803 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 08:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spacehog.structured.net (spacehog.structured.net [206.58.0.180]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16792 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 08:39:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (justin@localhost) by spacehog.structured.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01820; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 08:41:27 GMT Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 08:41:27 +0000 () From: "Justin J. Ashworth" To: Nik Clayton cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <199608150914.KAA27520@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Nik Clayton wrote: > >Is it possible/are there tools to back up a Win95 machine to a tape drive >located on a FreeBSD box? If anyone's got any pointers to information they >could pass on, I'd be very appreciative (and will, of course, summarise >back to the list). Mount your Win 95 partition and read about 'dump'. Dump your Win 95 partition to the tape, but be forewarned that whatever long filenames you have will be truncated to their 8.3 counterparts. ---------- Justin Ashworth justin@spacehog.structured.net