robertl@killer.UUCP (Robert Lord) (08/05/87)
I was just working on the lone PC in our office, and relised that we needed
to have a backup of the machine. Now, beeing the inovative person I am,
I realised that there is probably a way to archive all of the files onto
our Altos 2086 Xenix III machine using the PC as a terminal. The only
way I could think how to do it would be to use XMODEM to send each file
one by one to the host, where the host would take that one file, tar it to
the tape delete it, then go back for more. Is there any way to do this
quicker without the pain of the transfering the file to a storage medium
twice? Could I run the Xmodem data straight through a pipe such as:
xmodem -rb | tar cvf /dev/rct filename
Would that work? Also, how the hell would I specify filenames? (I am thing
of just using file1, file2, etc, but then if the drive crashes, were up a
creek finding all of the files).
As for directories, I was thinking of using dirname.filename for the
filename, then I could just say 'tar xvf /dev/rct dirname.*' and get
the files back directory by directory (manually creating directories).
Any help appreciated,
Robert Lord