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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archives)
- Message-ID: <0JJ9wB3w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 18:10:32 EST
- References: <1993Jan11.151640.16986@wam.umd.edu>
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
- > It seems to me the best way to go would be to compress each file
- > before it's put in the tar file, and then (obviously) decompress it
- >
- > I suppose this could be accomplished by piping find into compress into
- > tar, but I'm not entirely sure.
-
- Not last I heard... tar can be made to take a list of file names from stdin,
- but not a succession of files (how is it to know where one stops and the
- next starts?).
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- ++Brandon
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