From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 10:34:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24349 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plains.nodak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24339 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 10:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA16903; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:34:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 12:34:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199608151734.MAA16903@plains.nodak.edu> To: justin@spacehog.structured.net, nik@blueberry.co.uk Subject: Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD? Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. I think you want to use "tar", or "cpio". Dump uses the raw devices and expects a Unix filesystem, whereas tar and cpio use emulated filesystem. --mark.