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- From: colin@cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
- Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
- Message-ID: <colin.716442459@marsh>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep3.165702.3809@gateway.novell.com> <1992Sep4.085828.10853@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <1992Sep06.104350.2659@rubikon.han.de> <BRTMAC.92Sep6140131@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:47:39 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy) writes:
-
- >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;
-
- What about:
-
- find / -name "*" -exec "ind-comp"{}";"
-
- where ind-comp is:
- compress $1
- tar -r $1
- uncompress $1
-
- I'm not sure on the syntax, but you should get the general idea.
-
- Colin.
- --
- Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
-
- "Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
- -anon.
-