Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:39:35 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, =?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 Message-ID: <15201.24839.319470.91095@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010727161811.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <20010727084117.A8642@freebie.xs4all.nl> <XFMail.20010727161811.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> types: > > 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 :) So are multi-volume backups and properly designed file system layouts. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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