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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntprelay.mathworks.com!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: tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:51:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5p3btm$1bm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33B0261F.167EB0E7@journyx.com> <5op9l9$b77@baygull.rtd.com> <5oplqd$4sa@uriah.heep.sax.de> <01bc813d$6df08a40$f3e94dc2@hugo09.ticsoft.de> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43804 "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> wrote: > As an addon: don't use tar for backup, use cpio. Better yet, use dump/restore. ;-) > Or Amanda ;-) ...does it this way. -- 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. ;-)