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From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem?
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Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1993 11:59:36 GMT
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dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
>my disk is hosed, I should hope I could restore the floppies.  But since
>the /dev entries are special files, what should I do about them?  Switch
>to 'cpio' for backups?

try dump(8) and restore(8).

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Heiko W.Rupp  Gerwigstr.5  7500 Kh'e 1  hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org  +49 721 693642
The Abrams' Principle:
	The shortest distance between two points is off the wall.