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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 19:30:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: hard reading error
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> Richard Chang stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > Yes.  You'll want a tape drive, or you can do it through a pipe if you have
> > > the two disks in the same machine.
> > 
> > 	How exactly do you do it if the two disks are in the same machine?
> 
> If you're using csh, something like this :
> 
> # cd /dead_filesystem
> # dump 0bf 10000000 - | (cd /new_filesystem; restore rvf -)

	Hmmm, thanks!  I always either tar and untar or just do a cp -R
but never used dump and restore before...

> Read the manpages for dump and restore _first_.

	Will do and thanks again!

Richard