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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TDC 4200 and FreeBSD Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:44:13 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <47jb7d$l11@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46v2oj$kd1@linet04.li.net> <471o0v$oe2@times.tfs.com> <1995Nov3.010614.28122@state.systems.sa.gov.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <chdemgt@state.systems.sa.gov.au> wrote: >Yes, it seems to be a problem with dump. Suggest you use cpio. Suggest you not use cpio. :-) Increment the block size for dump (the `b' option), e.g. to 16 (kilobytes). As long as you can live with the limitation of backing up entire partitions at once, dump(8) is most likely more interesting for backup purposes. (Programs like tar(1) or cpio(1) do also have their merits, but backing up and restoring large file systems do not belong to it.) Detailed reasoning of my opinions upon request. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)