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From: os@hannibal.camelot.de (Oliver Scheel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dump and compression
Date: 18 Mar 1997 22:55:57 GMT
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> Am I right, and dump does not attempt to compress the data?
> If so, why? I can fit more on the same tape with tar/gzip, than
> with dump (unless the drive has hardware compression in it)...
> Thanks,

e.g.

dump 0uf - /usr | gzip -c >/dev/rst0

should work (or am I wrong? I only used wthis with my phase change drive.).

Oliver

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