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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.math.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: cross@math.psu.edu (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: cpio, dump, or tar Date: 18 Sep 1996 02:57:25 -0400 Organization: Mememememememmeme Lines: 24 Message-ID: <51o6gl$dif@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <01bba4ba$4a8abfe0$a46454a0@brookjt.framatech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: augusta.math.psu.edu In article <01bba4ba$4a8abfe0$a46454a0@brookjt.framatech.com>, Jamie Brooks <Jamie_T_Brooks@framatech.com> wrote: >Does anyone know what type of backup to do on a BSD Unix host? I have >backed up all filesystems except root with tar, and I know that tar will >not backup device nodes. I tried to use cpio and dump, however neither one >is on this BSD Unix host! That surprises me. Perhaps you don't have dump in your path? Dump was written for BSD, and is the ``standard'' backup method for BSD systems. >I am puzzled. I thought all Unix uses tar, cpio, and dump, however I have >found out differently with this BSD O/S (v2.0). I have limited >documentation on BSD and would appreciate any help. Well, no. Stardent titans, for instance, use a version of system V that doesn't have dump. cpio or GNU tar is the prefered method for backups on such a machine. Older versions of BSD lacked cpio support. BSD/OS should have dump in /sbin. Are you sure you aren't just missing it from your path? Hope this helps! - Dan C.