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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!cmcl2!newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu!home.stark.cs.sunysb.EDU!stark!stark!gene From: stark!gene@newsserv.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: backing up MS-DOS filesystem with "tar" Date: 1 Aug 94 15:10:48 Organization: Gene Stark's home system Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <STARK!GENE.94Aug1151048@stark.uucp> References: <31e275$12e@qualcomm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: home.stark.cs.sunysb.edu In-reply-to: bri@qualcomm.com's message of 30 Jul 1994 11:21:41 -0600 In article <31e275$12e@qualcomm.com> bri@qualcomm.com (Brian Ellis) writes: "dump" doesn't work for msdos type filesystems: 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??? Yes, you are assuming that the MS-DOS filesystem code works properly. Depending on which *BSD system you are using, this might or might not be true. I had trouble trying what you describe under FreeBSD (a few months ago, roughly 1.1). If you are really concerned about being able to get your stuff back, I suggest using "dd" to make a disk image dump of the partition onto tape. You are more likely to be able to restore this than the tar file. - Gene Stark