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- From: doug@owl.isis.org (Douglas W Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Backing up to diskettes
- Keywords: TAR
- Message-ID: <Da0ooB1w164w@owl.isis.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 00:45:24 GMT
- Organization: Quoi! me organized?
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- Hi all... Me again...
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- Has anyone been able to do a multivolume tar format backup to diskettes?
- I tried it tonight but I wasnt at the end of the first diskette that
- TAR got to the /dev directory and hung there. I presume that the hang
- is due to the backup of the /dev files, but this didnt allow me to test
- the multi-volume situation.
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- Could anyone enlighten me on how to go about in doing backups to t
- diskettes (preferably with TAR) but I do think that (if memory serves
- me right) only cpio is capable of backing up device files.
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- Any thoughts on this?
-
- Doug!
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