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- From: slix@svcs1.UUCP (Bill Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
- Summary: yes, but will it span disks?
- Message-ID: <707@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 01:33:52 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.015437.15379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <colin.715495706@marsh>
- Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
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- In article <colin.715495706@marsh>, colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
- > You could use tar -cf - <directory> | compress | tar -cf -
- >
- > (I think the second one should work, but if you have GNU tar use that.)
- >
- > >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.
- >
-
- Yes, I tried this, plus some of the other suggestions, but I don't see
- how it will span disks. Tar by itself would be more convenient than
- cpio, I suppose, but it would be nice to stick in a prompt or something
- to change disks when the first disk fills up. Tar just seems to keep
- going.
-
- Or, do you simply switch disks as soon as the little red light on the
- drive has gone out for a while? :)
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