On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 16:49 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/29/2018 03:08 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > On 07/28/2018 11:13 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 07/28/2018 11:04 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > > > Actually it turned out not to be a typo. I was trying to open > > > > a "dump" file in file-roller. When I open the actual tar file, > > > > it worked perfectly. > > > > > > What's a "dump" file? I've never seen a ".gz2" extension. What is it? > > > > > > "dump" and "restore". See "man dump" > > Interesting. I've never used that and probably never will either. dump and restore are probably the oldest archiving utilities in the *ix world, originally from UNIX in the 70's. They date from the bad old days of tape decks, but can be used with other media and of course with files. IIRC their advantage is that they don't assume the media (file) is seekable, so can handle arbitrary length input. Their disadvantage is that they're focused on archiving and restoring entire filesystems, so may not be what the OP is looking for. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/5456B74OJAOQHRHO25WMIBBA7SPY5BWZ/
