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- From: toad@rubikon.han.de (Peter Cleve)
- Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
- References: <1992Sep3.165702.3809@gateway.novell.com> <1992Sep4.085828.10853@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Rubikon Rethen BRD
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 10:43:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep06.104350.2659@rubikon.han.de>
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- In <1992Sep4.085828.10853@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
-
- >: Doesn't gnutar support -z (LZW compression)?
- >Cannot do multi-volume, at least the 386bsd one. The reason is due to
- >the fact that it gnu tar just pipes it through compress, instead of
- >incorporating it before the multivolume archiving.
- > The trick is to call the compress before the archiving.
-
- >Any ideas?
-
- Something like this: (Not a ready to go script, but it shows the idea)
-
- YourFavoriteArchiver |
- YourFavoriteCompress | (
- echo Insert Media > /dev/tty
- read dummy < /dev/tty
- dd of=YourFavoriteDevice bs=Foo count=YourFavoriteMediaSize
- )
-
- Reading from the Media should be implemented easily too.
-
- By
-
- It would nice if someone put this in a ready to go script and post it here
-
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