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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
- Date: 6 Sep 92 14:01:31
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <BRTMAC.92Sep6140131@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <1992Sep3.165702.3809@gateway.novell.com>
- <1992Sep4.085828.10853@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- <1992Sep06.104350.2659@rubikon.han.de>
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- In-reply-to: toad@rubikon.han.de's message of Sun, 06 Sep 92 10:43:50 GMT
-
- In article <1992Sep06.104350.2659@rubikon.han.de> toad@rubikon.han.de
- (Peter Cleve) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- There is a serious problem with this scheme. You have to read every
- single disk, or whatever, to get a file that is on the last disk.
- Also, if a disk in the middle of the dump is bad there is no way to
- get the data from the disks following the bad one because you can't
- start reading a compressed file in the middle.
-
- ++Brett;
-