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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: restore dumps to new disk? Date: 27 Nov 1996 00:28:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <57g1uu$jmu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E1FA5C.Iv@infosci.org> <rcjvdb.848953159@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E rcjvdb@urc.tue.nl (Jan van den Bosch) wrote: > >A tar backup would be OK, even with a different partition scheme. > >However does (g)tar backup device files, even those large minor > >no's now in FreeBSD? > Tar must be used if you want to merge a filesystem into another. Actually not. While dump(8) can only dump entire filesystems, restore(8) can perfectly merge multiple dumps into a single filesystem. -- 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. ;-)