Unix 'dump' question

From: Patrick Rigney <patrick_at_evocative.com>
Date: Wed Jan 7 19:06:01 2004

> >Your "restore" command may/should have a -t option, which would list the
> >dump contents only.
> >
> >Patrick
>
> Cool! I didn't think of that (I've only used "restore" a couple
> times, and it's been years). Next question, does it pull it's
> info from the front of the dump image, or does it have to read
> through the whole image? Yes, I have a lot to get lists from :^(

Zane, that I don't know for sure, but I believe you may be forced to read a
good bit of each tape/image. For the most part I "dump" to holding disks
rather than tape, so the seek times aren't really an issue. I only dump the
images to tape for archival storage, and when I need to restore from an
archive, I fetch the image from tape to the holding disk. Saves wear and
tear on the archive tapes, I suppose, too. --Patrick
Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 19:06:01 GMT