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From: cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: will dump/restore be available on 5.4
Message-ID: <3016@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 90 21:02:15 GMT
References: <30178@cup.portal.com>
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From article <30178@cup.portal.com>, by tms@cup.portal.com:
> Will the Unix Dump/Restore utilities be available on Unix 5.4?  Will
> there be a new, perhaps better utility for backup.  What about
> tar and cpio.  Will both still be supported?

The BSD dump and restore utilities are suppored for the UFS file system
type.  They go by the names ufsdump and ufsrestore.  They do not appear
to be supported for the S5 filesystem type.  Tar and cpio are both
supported.  Tar still "doesn't copy empty directories or special
files".  Cpio uses a new format, but can still read and write the old
format using some non-intuitive flags.

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Charles.
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