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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:49:08 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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	=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_K=FChl?= <kuehl@lgk.de>,
	James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu>,
	Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Subject: Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:18:11PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 27-Jul-2001 Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >  On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:46:24PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107261449560.14427-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> James
> > > Howard writes:
> > > : A lot of people said this.  Why?  As near as I can tell, dump isn't that
> > > : great either.  There is no way to exlude specific directories with dump
> > > : and it appears to be quite painful to restore a specific directory
> > > : (though
> > > : I could be wrong about this.
> >  
> >  Restore in interactive mode (-i) is pretty good for this kind of thing.
> 
> But it still sucks for backing up when you _know_ you don't want everything and
> you couldn't even if you wanted it because your backup media is too small..
> 
> ie selectivity is good :)

Sure. 

[I love my DLT4000 ;-) ]

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