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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
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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

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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 !