Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 01:56:58 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: rhh@ct.picker.com Cc: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu, nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199608152356.BAA01353@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <199608152143.RAA20231@elmer.picker.com> from "Randall Hopper" at Aug 15, 96 05:43:15 pm
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Randall Hopper wrote:
>
> Mark Tinguely:
> |> 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.
I use dd(1).
> We can't mount VFAT and keep the long filenames yet, can we? This is one
> caveat of using mentioned mount/{tar,cpio} technique (unless I missed a
> VFAT announcement -- I think Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> is
> working on adding this).
VFAT support is progressing, but is still on the way.
Microsoft supplies a utility on the Win95 CD which will back up
long filenames separately. The idea is that you can then back up
everything else with tools that understand only 8.3 names.
I think backing up through the msdosfs would be asking for trouble,
though.
--
Robert Nordier
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