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Re: How to backup an executor partition??
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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