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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!inXS.uu.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu!usenet From: Matthew White <mwhite@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions??? Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 17:41:38 -0400 Organization: Freehold Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31EABB12.41C67EA6@freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu> References: <4ru18i$mll@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <DuC0y7.Asx@tigger.jvnc.net> <31E44224.41C6@ucdavis.edu> <4s49h4$cjt@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> <4s7vvp$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4sa8n8$cv0@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> <4sajsr$eh@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4scjug$d24@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> <4scnui$fog@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> <4sdcug$fne@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: freehold.pc.cs.cmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) J Wunsch wrote: > > jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) wrote: > > > >Should be possible. > > > > Compressed dump should be easy, since we are Unix: > > dump 0uBf 150000 - / | gzip | dd conv=osync | ft 'my compressed dump' Ack! Don't do this! Any error that occurs during reading or writing this dump will render the entire backup useless. You are probably better off using tar or cpio and using the '--block-compress' option. -Matt