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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!unlisys!desert!heaven7.snafu.de!usenet From: martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Making a multi-volume backup to /dev/fd0 using tar Date: 24 May 1996 08:27:13 +0200 Organization: The Seventh Heaven, Berlin, Germany Lines: 20 Sender: martini@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Message-ID: <ufohney4am.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> References: <DrpIsx.y7@ecf.toronto.edu> <4nq2e0$a6n@sidhe.hsc.fr> <4nsma9$5t1@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-reply-to: chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu's message of Tue, 21 May 1996 15:08:57 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4nsma9$5t1@fang.cs.sunyit.edu> chuck@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (PRC/IRDS) writes: : I beleive doing this (tar -cvfM /dev/rfd0 *) will create a big : tar file named "M". Probably. The hyphen is superfluous(sp?), "tar cvfM /deV/rfd0 ." should work fine. Do not use "*" unless you really don't want to save your hidden (dot) files. : tar -M -L 1440 -cvf /dev/fd0 * (or some compfortable combonation) Nah. That looks _ugly_! What's wrong with the calling syntax tar always had? -- | Nur nicht an die eigene Nase, | PE | Martin Ibert, Fürstenweg 11, | | nur nicht vor der eigenen Tür, | WERNER | D-13589 Berlin-Spandau, Ger. | | nur nicht aus der eigenen Tasche, |_________ | <martini@heaven7.snafu.de> | | alles, was ihr wollt -- nur nicht von mir! | | +4930-37595100 Fax -37595101 | PGP key and Geek code available on my home page <http://www.snafu.de/~martini/>