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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!pnl-oracle!osi-east2.es.net!fastrac.llnl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!noc.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.utdallas.edu!corpgate!bnrgate!bmerha64.bnr.ca!CompStar!bcars267!bcarh54a!bcarh2c!xiao From: xiao@bcarh2c.bnr.ca (Bo Xiao) Subject: Re: How to backup to floppy. Yes, floppy :-) Message-ID: <1994Feb22.201005.29008@bcarh54a.bnr.ca> Sender: xiao@bcarh2c (Bo Xiao) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 20:10:05 GMT References: <2k5c10$2m1@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> Nntp-Posting-Host: bcarh2c Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada Lines: 13 In article <2k5c10$2m1@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw>, u8123555@cc.nctu.edu.tw (I-Fei Tsai) writes: |> Hi: |> Is there anybody can tell me how to backup (or dump ... etc) |> my 386BSD (/dev/wd0a) onto floppies (/dev/fd0a) . I believe tar is the best candidate for doing such. Unfortunately, most versions of tar do not deal with multivolumn(floppies). There is a bar in SunOS handles multivolumn. And I correct? (I can not find the man pages for tar on my FreeBSD 1.0.2.) Bo ===== I speak for no one and no one speaks for me.