Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Boulianne
Hi, Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 Or after a restore, Windows would be able to read the files? What about dd, with

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Martin Boulianne wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 No. Dump is specific to ufs/ufs2 filesystems. It

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: Hi, Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 Well, I

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: Hi, Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use: # dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1 Dump is

Re: Dump and restore for Windows partitions

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Boulianne
On Jan 30, 2008 2:08 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Martin Boulianne wrote: Hi, Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions. Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could