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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.erols.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: Tape Backup help Message-ID: <DzA0JE.AF9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:28:26 GMT Lines: 15 In article <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes: >he was trying to dump only _part_ of a filesystem, which is simply >impossible due to the way how dump works (by scanning the raw dev that >corresponds to the filesystem). Hardly impossible, since Sun's dump has done it for years... It can scan the device, and only dump files within the specified tree. I seem to recall someone here saying that it wouldn't take much to add this to the FreeBSD dump program. -- Richard -- "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs"