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- From: richb@jti.com (Richard Braun)
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- Subject: Re: The backup problem (was Re: tar won't do multi-volume archive
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 19:42:37 GMT
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- FYI: an email response to my original inquiry on this thread pointed me
- to a program called 'backflops' which can be found in the sources/usr.bin
- directory on tsx-11.
-
- This program does essentially what a couple of people here have suggested,
- and it has all the same limitations (it can't tolerate any errors of
- any sort, ranging from insertion of a write-protected disk 3/4 of the
- way through your backup to bumping into a disk-read error on Diskette One
- when trying to restore a file from Diskette Fifteen). But it's better
- than nothing, and arguably better than doing backups without compression
- but with error-recovery features (you have to decide that for yourself:
- do you make multiple backups without error recovery, or less-frequent
- backups with it?)
-
- It performs about as fast as, perhaps faster than, the DOS FastBack program.
-
- -rich
-