brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (12/30/87)
What do people use to do full system backups? More specifically, how do you do a full backup without spending an entire afternoon feeding floppies to your 3b1? Please-- forget the tape drive; I agree it's the best idea, but it's too expensive. What is really needed is a multi-volume "tar" or "cpio" with compression. I have the ccpio/unccpio shell scripts, but (a) that's appallingly slow, since ccpio has to re-read each floppy after writing, and (b) I've been burned at least three times so far, with ccpio creating archives that were later unreadable (even though the disks were good). There must be a better way. So-- has anyone found a satisfactory backup mechanism? Is there a PD tar or cpio-like program that has the desired features? -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant