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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!news.fai.com!news.ossi.com!news.ossi.com!usenet
  2. From: greywolf@ossi.com
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
  4. Subject: Re: Using dd in the Backup Process
  5. Date: 6 Nov 1992 02:29:00 GMT
  6. Organization: Not the knights who say "NIH!"
  7. Lines: 9
  8. Sender: news@ossi.com
  9. Message-ID: <1dcl9cINNr87@nym.ossi.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: defender.ossi.com
  11. X-Punchline: "Candygram."
  12.  
  13. [ All the mdd/ddd programs deleted. ]
  14.  
  15. I think the equivalent of what is being done here can be accomplished by
  16. using:
  17.  
  18. tar cvf - . | compress | dd ibs=1024k obs=64k conv=block of=$TAPE
  19.  
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  21. AT&T:  The knights who say "NIH!"
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