Unix 'dump' question

7 Jan 2004

...
  Your
"restore" command may/should have a -t option, which would list the
dump contents only.

Patrick 
 Cool!  I didn't think of that (I've only used "restore" a couple
 times, and it's been years).  Next question, does it pull it's
 info from the front of the dump image, or does it have to read
 through the whole image?  Yes, I have a lot to get lists from :^( 
Zane, that I don't know for sure, but I believe you may be forced to read a
good bit of each tape/image.  For the most part I "dump" to holding disks
rather than tape, so the seek times aren't really an issue.  I only dump the
images to tape for archival storage, and when I need to restore from an
archive, I fetch the image from tape to the holding disk.  Saves wear and
tear on the archive tapes, I suppose, too.  --Patrick

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