joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel) (02/21/91)
jfrench@cs.tamu.edu (Jeff French) writes: >I would also be interested in hearing what type of backup schemes are being >used on the Coherent file system. With no tape support, this makes a floppy >backup a must. The MWC tar(C) does not support multi-volume backups and I can't >seem to get GNU-tar to either. The "dump(C)" routines are not enough and don't >allow file compression. All hints/pointers/flames would be appreciated. Normally GNUTAR should support Multivolume backups but I just tried it on my Interactive. I prefer cpio to make Backups and it seems to be reasonable fast. find /usr/local -print | cpio -ocdvB > /dev/rfva0. It is also possible to change diskettes (720K to 1.44MB or whatever) when you use cpio. But you have to type a lot more. dump is one of the utilities developed in "Coherent stone age" and I never used it or will use it. Also: Ever tried ustar, the TAR-Link to pax ? Joachim ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Joachim Riedel joachim@jrix.radig.de Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 48 D-6050 Offenbach am Main Tel. +49 69 85 62 25 ----------------------------------------------------------------------