kjh@aludra.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) (11/09/90)
Can you use Minix tar for backup to several floppies? How? I'd also like to pipe the output from tar through compress before it goes to the floppies. It's definitely time for me to do a backup. -- favorite oxymorons: military intelligence, honest politician, civil war Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6 kjh@usc.edu ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh
pcm@iwarp.intel.com (Phil Miller) (11/09/90)
In article <13049@chaph.usc.edu>, kjh@aludra (Kenneth J. Hendrickson) writes: | Can you use Minix tar for backup to several floppies? How? | I'd also like to pipe the output from tar through compress before it | goes to the floppies. It's definitely time for me to do a backup. I have had pretty good luck with using vol in combination with tar. Vol breaks up a stream of data from stdin into 1.2M (or 360k, etc.) chunks for placement onto floppies, or combines chunks of data from floppies into one big stream of data. Pretty clever. VERY slow. Phil