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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 1997 13:10:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu>
To:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dump for msdos filesystems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.970320130820.15475C-100000@keystone.westminster.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703201154.DAA09313@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> whilst looking at the overall backup picture for my pc, I realised it
> would be nice to backup dos from unix.
> 
> is there already a dump converted to msdos ?
> 
> if not, I'm going to hack on dump a bit.

I might just be being stupid here, but can't you mount your DOS 
partition, and just backup whatever directory you mounted it on?
I guess it might create some problems come restore time, but that could 
easily be fixed in a version w/ better MSDOS filesystem skills.
You can use either mount_msdos directly or mount -t msdos.
Unless I'm missing something simple, which is quite possible.

:-}  MAtt



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