On Tue 15 Mar 2005 at 01:53:33 +0000, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> I suppose not. You could write a file directly to the raw partition using
> "growisofs". E.g. "growisofs -Z /dev/rcd0d=dumpfile".  To use that with
> "dump -B" would required some clever scripting.

Not much clever scripting needed. I use this (not on i386, so the raw
partition is c):

#!/bin/sh
unset SUDO_COMMAND
size="-B $(( 4482 * 1024 ))"
writecommand="growisofs -Z /dev/rcd0c=/dev/stdin"

ask_and_dump() {
    partition=$1
    read -p "Type yes to start level 1 dump of $partition: " answer
    case $answer in
        [Yy]*)
            dump -1 -u $size -f - $partition  | $writecommand 
            ;;
        *)
            echo "$partition skipped..."
            ;;
    esac
}

ask_and_dump "/home"
ask_and_dump "/usr"

> Frederick
-Olaf.
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