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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!qualcomm.com!qualcomm.com!not-for-mail From: bri@qualcomm.com (Brian Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: backing up MS-DOS filesystem with "tar" Date: 30 Jul 1994 11:21:41 -0600 Organization: QUALCOMM, Incorporated; San Diego, CA, USA Lines: 15 Message-ID: <31e275$12e@qualcomm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: redcloud.qualcomm.com "dump" doesn't work for msdos type filesystems: zellis.com <72> sudo dump 0f /dev/rst0 /msdos DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 30 11:21:19 1994 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0h (/msdos) to /dev/rst0 DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. so, I guess "tar" will have to do. Can anyone think of a reason that an MS-DOS partition cannot be restored to its original state by tar??? -brian