Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 07:39:42 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu (Matthew D. Fuller) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump for msdos filesystems Message-ID: <199703202043.MAA05781@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970320130820.15475C-100000@keystone.westminster.edu> from "Matthew D. Fuller" at Mar 20, 97 01:10:10 pm
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In some mail from Matthew D. Fuller, sie said: > > 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. At work, we recently realised the performance benefit of dump only writing one file to tape (as opposed to how tar/cpio work). For example, filesystems with many small files have the backup time reduced from several hours to less than half an hour. Where there are larger files, the boost isn't so much. darren
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