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From: charlie@pc.antipope.org (Charlie Stross)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Q: How to back up a DOS box to UNIX via Kermit?
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 12:00:15 +0100
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On Sat, 1 Aug 1998 09:50:45 +0100, Dr Eberhard W Lisse
<el@linux.lisse.na> wrote:
>
>I'd look into something like
>
>kermit -k | tar cvfz backup.tgz -
Tried it. It didn't work. Wrote a 45-byte header then died, complaining
of something (that disappeared off the screen before I could read it).
I suspect kermit -k just splats a series of bytes out, without any
indication of which file those bytes belong to -- not a very good idea
when the objective is to create a viable backup.
(All I'm trying to do is (a) back up a MSDOS box via kermit onto a Linux
system, and maybe (b) synchronize the contents of a single directory, once
I get backup sorted out.)
-- Charlie