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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
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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

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