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From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
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On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >
> > The -L flag to dump takes a snapshot. And if you create it by hand with
> > mksnap_ffs(8) you probably back it up with dump (the trick in the dump
> > source is to create the snapshot, open it and then unlink it).
>
> Yes, and if a backup from a snapshot works while -L doesn't, we have
> just greatly reduced the points of failure.

Please ignore my ignorance, but how can I dump(8) from a file?

regards,
le

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