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From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped
Date: 25 Jun 1997 07:56:46 GMT
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> schrieb im Beitrag
<5oplqd$4sa@uriah.heep.sax.de>...
> dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) wrote:
>
> > >tar: dev/rwd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped
>
> > This appears to be something inherent in the tar used in FBSD.
>
> This appears to be something inherent in the tar file format.
As an addon: don't use tar for backup, use cpio.
Or Amanda ;-)
For cpio:
# cd /
# find -d -x . usr var home usr/local -print | cpio -oB -H newc -O
/dev/rst0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ use your filesystems here
Note the _missing_ "/" in ". usr var ...", you won't be able
to extract your backup to a different location, if you add
it.
Patrick