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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!spring.edu.tw!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: Tape Backup help Date: 15 Oct 1996 21:46:33 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5410np$dr9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <53cjo1$9nf@scipio.cyberstore.ca> <53itmk$bi0@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <53nuu9$8p4@uriah.heep.sax.de> <53ug94$6ck@itchy.serv.net> 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 zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont .) wrote: > >he was trying to dump only _part_ of a filesystem, which is simply > >impossible due to the way how dump works (by scanning the raw dev that > >corresponds to the filesystem). > > what happens if you specify a level 1 dump? Where's the problem? I'm doing level 7 thru 9 dumps all the time. -- 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. ;-)