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- From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
- Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
- Message-ID: <colin.715495706@marsh>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep3.015437.15379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:48:26 GMT
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- paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
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- >Does anyone know of any software for UN*X, 386BSD or otherwise,
- >that does on-the-fly compression? Thinking of looking into
- >writing my own, or getting some 386BSD people together to help,
- >as soon as I get my new machine built with enough HD space to
- >re-compile 386BSD... This would be really nice for people with
- >floppies, or even people who want to save on tapes.
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- GNU tar has a -z option. This compresses the tar file.
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- OR
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- You could use tar -cf - <directory> | compress | tar -cf -
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- (I think the second one should work, but if you have GNU tar use that.)
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- >I realize that this isn't the standard UN*X way to do backups,
- >but a compressing dump program would be really useful to students.
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- >Dave Paoletti :)
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-
- Colin.
-
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- Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
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- "Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
- -anon.
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