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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: dump/restore
Keywords: cpio is not a real backup program
Message-ID: <229@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 26 Oct 88 12:17:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: dcs.229
References: <178@celerity.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <178@celerity.UUCP> billd@celerity.UUCP (Bill Davidson) writes:
 >I am trying to write tapes from Microport System V/AT (80286 yech!) and
 >I would like to use a format which can be read by BSD 4.3's dump/restore
 >programs (so that I can read my backups from a real computer).  I have
 >the source for dump/restore on Berkeley but it's very much bound to the
 >Berkeley file system and it appears that it would be rediculously difficult
 >to port.

I'd be careful with that, anyway. I have run into problems with the dump format
being different on different machines, all running BSD.

Why not use TAR? or cpio or its public-domain brother afio? Both of these
options would be much more portable than dump.
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