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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!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: dump and compression Date: 23 Mar 1997 19:44:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5h4174$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5glaem$io6$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <5gn6ht$972@hannibal.camelot.de> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37632 os@hannibal.camelot.de (Oliver Scheel) wrote: > e.g. > > dump 0uf - /usr | gzip -c >/dev/rst0 . if reading fails, the remainder of the backup is hosed, . you lose dump's tape handling abilities, including end-of-medium detection, and error recovery, . you have to pipe it through ``dd conv=osync'' anyway, in order to ensure the last block will be a complete tape block. -- 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. ;-)