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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: backup: tar vs cpio? Date: 27 Feb 1994 13:50:24 +0100 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2kq4uu$6l@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <MARK.822.2D6F935C@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <MARK.822.2D6F935C@ardsley.business.uwo.ca>, Mark_Bramwell <MARK@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> wrote: >I have a 4mm dat drive. I would like to backup the system. >I want a backup that I can use for individual files as well as a full system >restore. The best thing to use is dump(8). It is a faster and better way to full file-system backups. It has a corresponding restore(8) command which enables you to select single files or whole directories on restore. dump(8) is limited to whole file-systems though. If one wants to backup just a few directories, one should use cpio(1) or tar. >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Mark Bramwell, VE3PZR Located in sunny London, Ontario -- Ollivier ROBERT Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGP 2.3a public key on key-servers Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !