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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best way to copy directory trees
Date: 31 Aug 1996 15:28:20 GMT
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ritz@onyx.interactive.net (Chris Mauritz) wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand why folks don't just use dump and restore?

Because they only handle entire filesystems?

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cheers, J"org

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