Subject: Re: Backing up NetBSD partitions on DAT, under NetBSD?
To: None <gcornu@dtr.fr, port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 10/03/1998 23:39:13 
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 11:29:29PM +0000, Gerard Cornu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to backup my NetBSD partitions on an HP DAT,
> under NetBSD itself.
> 
> What are the best ways to do it?

read "man dump" and "man restore". dump/restore is only for bsd-ffs partitions,
but very effective.

if you want to save partial partition (subdirectory trees) use "tar".

	-is