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- From: gallatin@diego.isds.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: How to backup an executor partition??
- Date: 20 May 1996 19:38:40 GMT
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- In article <4nnhld$rna@service.polymtl.ca>,
- Vincent S. Cojot <coyote@step.polymtl.ca> wrote:
- >I'd like to ask a small question about executor under Linux:
- >
- > I love executor and I have installed on an ext2fs partition.
- > However, the usual backup programs one would use under Linux
- >complain about that partition (Mac programs tend to put spaces and other
- >strange characters in file names). GNU tar complains about Long links
- >and skips files and cpio simply doesn't like some file names and skips
- >some files too.
-
- Have you tried dump/restore? I'd thought that Linux had a traditional
- dump/restore for ext2fs these days.. Any Linux people know?
-
- I run E/L under FreeBSD, and back up the partition containing executor
- using dump with no problems.
-
- Drew
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