[net.wanted] tar for disk backups?

dcm (09/16/82)

Has anyone developed scripts using tar to do disk
backups instead of dump/restor?  (If not, I might.)  
                                                     
Complaints with dump/restor:  slow, rewinds all the 
time, hard to restor a hierarchy.

David Menges, decvax!pur-ee!iuvax!dcm, Indiana U CS, (812) 335-0920.