From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 15 16:59:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA09447 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 16:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-7-192-152.iafrica.com [196.7.192.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA09435 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 1996 16:59:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA01353; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 01:56:59 +0200 From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199608152356.BAA01353@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: Backing up Win95 from FreeBSD? To: rhh@ct.picker.com Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 01:56:58 +0200 (SAT) Cc: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu, nik@blueberry.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608152143.RAA20231@elmer.picker.com> from "Randall Hopper" at Aug 15, 96 05:43:15 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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